Hymn tune
VENI EMMANUEL
VENI EMMANUEL is a hymn tune in 8.8.8.8.8.8, credited to French. 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.
25 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 ULCA Hymnal, 1917 Hymn 1.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to VENI EMMANUEL, 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
- Faith of Our Fathers — Faith of our fathers! living still
- O Come, O Come, Emmanuel — O come, O come, Immanuel,
- The Good Shepherd — The Lord my pasture shall prepare
- Praise to God for His Goodness and Truth — I'll praise my Maker whilst I've breath:
- Eternal Father! strong to save — Eternal Father! strong to save,
- Jesus, Thy Boundless Love to Me — Jesus, Thy boundless love to me
- Sweet Savior, Bless Us Ere We Go — O Saviour, bless us ere we go;
- Wrestling Jacob — Come, O Thou Traveller unknown,
- Lo! God is here let us adore — Lo! God is here! let us adore,
- When Gathering Clouds — When gath'ring clouds around I view,
- Christ in You, the Hope of Glory — Thou hidden love of God, whose height,
- God of Our Fathers — God of our fathers, known of old,