Hymn tune

UFFINGHAM

UFFINGHAM is a hymn tune in Long Meter (8.8.8.8), composed by Jeremiah Clarke (died 1707) (1701). 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.

256 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 The English Hymnal, 1906 Hymn 434.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to UFFINGHAM, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.

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