Hymn tune
TALLIS' CANON
TALLIS' CANON is a hymn tune in Long Meter (8.8.8.8), composed by Thomas Tallis (1505–1585). 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 255 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 Episcopal Hymnal, 1916 Hymn 25.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to TALLIS' CANON, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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Hymns sung to TALLIS' CANON
Other texts in the same meter
- Just as I Am, Without One Plea — Just as I am, without one plea,
- When I Survey the Wondrous Cross — When I survey the wondrous cross
- Happy Day — O happy day, that stays my choice
- Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun — Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
- Sun of my soul, Thou Savior Dear — Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear,
- From Every Stormy Wind That Blows — From ev'ry stormy wind that blows,
- Glorying in the Cross of Christ — Jesus! and shall it ever be,
- From All That Dwell Below the Skies — From all that dwell below the skies,
- Asleep in Jesus! Blessed Sleep — Asleep in Jesus! blessed sleep!
- The Lovingkindness of the Lord — Awake, my soul, in joyful lays,
- Exhortation to Worship — Before Jehovah's awful throne,
- Morning — Awake, my soul, and with the sun