Hymn tune
VALET WILL ICH DIR GEBEN
VALET WILL ICH DIR GEBEN is a hymn tune in 7.6.7.6 D, composed by Melchior Teschner (1584–1635) (1615). 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 44 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 Presbyterian Hymnal, Revised, 1911 Hymn 216.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to VALET WILL ICH DIR GEBEN, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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Hymns sung to VALET WILL ICH DIR GEBEN
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,