ST. EDMUND (SULLIVAN)

ST. EDMUND (SULLIVAN) is a hymn tune in 6.4.6.4.6.6.6.4, composed by Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) (1872). 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 5 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 "Church Praise, with Tunes", 1885 Hymn 391. Words found there, too.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to ST. EDMUND (SULLIVAN), with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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