A hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung. Musically speaking, a hymn is generally understood to have four-part...

Bunessan is a hymn tune based on a Scottish folk melody, first associated with the Christmas carol "Child in the Manger" and later and more commonly with...

been continuously proposed as such. Other major uses of the tune include several Christian hymns and other national songs. After the success of the full-length...

"Thaxted" is a hymn tune by the English composer Gustav Holst, based on the stately theme from the middle section of the Jupiter movement of his orchestral...

Ebenezer also known as Ton-y-Botel (Tune in a Bottle) is a famous Welsh hymn tune composed by Thomas John Williams A.T.S.C. (1869–1944) and extracted...

who funded John Brown's work. The tune and some of the lyrics of "John Brown’s Body" came from a much older folk hymn called "Say, Brothers will you Meet...

and the scholarly study of hymns, hymnists and hymnody is hymnology. The music to which a hymn may be sung is a hymn tune. In many Evangelical churches...

Rhosymedre is the name of a hymn tune written by the 19th-century Welsh Anglican priest John David Edwards. Edwards named the tune after the village of Rhosymedre...

to the hymn tune Toplady by Thomas Hastings as revised by Lowell Mason. In the United Kingdom the hymn tune Redhead 76 is most common. This tune is also...

text with an appropriate hymn tune for singing. In the English language hymns occur in a limited variety of poetic metres. The hymn "Amazing Grace" exemplifies...

"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, written in 1772 by English Anglican clergyman and poet John Newton (1725–1807). It is possibly the...

common tune. In the United Kingdom, however, the hymn came to be sung to the French carol tune "Iris" (Les anges dans nos campagnes, the tune used for...

tuberculosis. It is most often sung to the tune "Eventide" by the English organist William Henry Monk. The author of the hymn, Henry Francis Lyte, was an Anglican...

appeared in Samuel Webbe's An Essay on the Church Plain Chant (1782). The hymn tune also made its way to the Sacred Harp tradition, appearing as "Hither Ye...

Clement is a popular British hymn tune, most commonly set to John Ellerton's hymn The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, is Ended. The tune is generally credited to the...

text by Paul Gerhardt). The common name for this hymn tune is "Passion Chorale." The well-known hymn is itself a reworking of an earlier secular song...

MacLeod on piano "Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol to the hymn tune "Gloria" from a traditional French song of unknown origin called "Les...

"Old Hundredth" (also known as "Old Hundred") is a hymn tune in long metre, from the second edition of the Genevan Psalter. It is one of the best known...

Dance" is a hymn written by English songwriter Sydney Carter in 1963. The melody is from the American Shaker song "Simple Gifts". The hymn is widely performed...

is a traditional Welsh hymn tune which exists with major and minor variants. The hymn tune Arfon originates as a Welsh folk tune of six lines (with the...

the best known hymns by the Protestant Reformer Martin Luther, a prolific hymnwriter. Luther wrote the words and composed the hymn tune between 1527 and...

"Child in the Manger" and called the air "Bunessan". The tune was reused in the 1930s for the hymn "Morning Has Broken". Bunessan lighthouse is located on...

many pre-existing hymn tunes and creating hymn tunes based on folk songs, he wrote several original hymn tunes: Original hymn tunes included in The English...

and is considered the official anthem of Yorkshire. It is sung to the hymn tune "Cranbrook", composed by Thomas Clark in 1805; while according to Andrew...

author, probably to fit the commonly used hymn tune, "Easter Hymn". It remains a traditional processional hymn on Easter Sunday. Charles Wesley, the co-founder...

Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic", which was written when a friend suggested, "Why do you not write some good words for that stirring tune?" Kimball suggests...

Cwm Rhondda is a popular hymn tune written by John Hughes (1873–1932) in 1907. The name is taken from the Welsh name for the Rhondda Valley. It is usually...

publication. The hymn is one of the most popular hymns amongst English-speaking congregations today, and it is traditionally sung to the hymn tune Crimond, generally...

"Northampton", is a hymn tune composed in the 1790s or early 1800s by Thomas Clark (1775–1859), a cobbler from Canterbury, and is best known as the tune to the Yorkshire...

Franconia is a hymn tune by Johann Balthasar König adapted by William Havergal. It first appeared in König's Harmonischer Liederschatz chorale book published...