Hymn tune
YOAKLEY
YOAKLEY is a hymn tune in 8.8.8.8.8.8, composed by William Yoakley (born 1820). 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 24 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 "Hymns and songs of praise for public and social worship" By Roswell Dwight Hitchcock, Philip Schaff, Zachary Eddy, 1874 Hymn 570 page 223. Music source: "The lute of Zion", 1853 page 151.). Choose any text below and press play to hear the words sung to YOAKLEY, with the lines highlighted as they come — on organ, piano or guitar, in any key.
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Hymns sung to YOAKLEY
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,
- 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,
- Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All — Jesus, my Lord, my God, my all,