Hymn tune
WERDE MUNTER
WERDE MUNTER is a hymn tune in 8.7.8.7.7.7.8.8, composed by Johann Schop (born 1590) (1642). 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.
2 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 (Music and Lyrics source: "Hymnal for Church and Home" (Danish Evangelical Lutheran Synods), 1927 Hymn 115 and "The Lutheran Hymnary", 1913 Hymn 325). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to WERDE MUNTER, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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