Hymn tune
TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM
TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM is a hymn tune in 7.6.7.6 D, credited to 1582 from Swedish Piae Cantones (1582). 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.
44 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 'Carols Old And Carols New', 1916 carol 415.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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Other texts in the same meter
- Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus — Stand up, stand up for Jesus,
- From Greenland's Icy Mountain — From Greenland's icy mountains,
- Work, for the Night is Coming — Work, for the night is coming;
- The Morning Light is Breaking — The morning light is breaking,
- The Church's One Foundation — The Church’s one foundation
- Jerusalem the Golden — Jerusalem the golden,
- Hail to the Lord's Anointed — Hail to the Lord's Anointed,
- O Day of Rest and Gladness — O day of rest and gladness!
- O sacred head now wounded — O sacred Head, now wounded,
- O Jesus, Thou Art Standing — O Jesus, Thou art standing
- O Jesus, I Have Promised — O Jesus, I have promised
- In Heavenly Love Abiding — In heavenly love abiding,