Hymn tune

ST. ANNE

ST. ANNE is a hymn tune in Common Meter (8.6.8.6), composed by William Croft (1678–1727) (1708). 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.

In this library it is the tune for 1 hymn, listed below, and 325 more texts in the same meter can be sung to it.

The four-part harmony played here comes from the Open Hymnal Project's public-domain edition (copied from 'The Lutheran Hymnary', 1913, Hymn 261. Arrangement is composite, first half from "Hymns Ancient and Modern", 1869, Hymn 231. ed William Henry Monk Second half is from "The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer", 1890, Hymn 279. ed. Charles Vincent, D.J. Wood, John Stainer). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to ST. ANNE, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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