Hymn tune
WOODWORTH
WOODWORTH is a hymn tune in 8.8.8.6, composed by William B. Bradbury (1816–1868) (1849). 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 2 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 (Music and Lyrics source: "The New Hymnal (Episcopal)", 1916 Hymn 139 (second tune) transposed down on half step into the more modernly used key of D). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to WOODWORTH, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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