ST. ALBAN

ST. ALBAN is a hymn tune in 6.5.6.5.6.5 D, composed by Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) (1774). In a hymnal the tune has a name of its own, printed in capitals, because the same music carries many texts: any hymn written in its meter can be sung to it.

2 hymns in this library share its meter and can be sung to it.

The four-part harmony played here comes from the Open Hymnal Project's public-domain edition (copied from 'The Evangelical Hymnal' 1921, Hymn 346.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to ST. ALBAN, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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