Hymn tune
TOPLADY
TOPLADY is a hymn tune in 7.7.7.7.7.7, composed by Thomas Hastings (1784–1872) (1830). 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 18 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 "Congregational Church Music with 150 Psalms and Hymns", 1854 Hymn 188 p. 77. Note this differs somewhat from Hasting's arrangement in "Spiritual Songs for Social Worship", 1837.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to TOPLADY, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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Hymns sung to TOPLADY
Other texts in the same meter
- Safely Through Another Week — Safely through another week
- For the Beauty of the Earth — For the beauty of the earth,
- As With Gladness Men of Old — As with gladness men of old
- Go to Dark Gethsemane — Go to dark Gethsemane,
- Christ, Whose glory fills the skies — Christ, whose glory fills the skies,
- Come, and Welcome — From the cross uplifted high
- Till He Come — "Till He come:" oh, let the words
- Quiet, Lord, my froward heart — Quiet, Lord, my froward heart;
- Gracious Spirit, Dwell with Me — Gracious Spirit, dwell with me!
- What Sin Hath Done — Hearts of stone, relent, relent!
- God of Mercy, God of Grace — God of mercy, God of grace,
- The Privileges of the Sons of God — Blessed are the sons of God,