Hymn tunes

These hymn tunes are often written to specific texts. But all tunes may, of course, be used to other texts if desired. Some of them also have descants.

All tunes are original, except for Elgar 1, Gresford and Horkstow Grange, for which no prior use as hymn tunes is known, thus making them new to the canon of hymnody.

This list is significantly incomplete.

Metre Name Score Audio Comments Examples Published; awards
6.6 6.6 6.6 8.6 Eights Marina     Come, worship God Most High (Te Deum)  
6.6 8.6 D (SMD) Kingsgate Bridge     O bless the Lord, my soul In Melody and Songs.[1]
6.6 8.8 8.6 Pelaw Wood     Our God and Father bless (Benedictus) Psalms for All Seasons.[2]
7.6 7.6 D Cenaculum PDF (choral)
PDF (music group) 		MIDI (choral)     Wesley Music for the Millennium.[3]
7.8 7.8 8.8 Saxilby   Written alongside a re-translation of Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, and in the same metre. Called by you and by your word  
8.6 8.6 D (CMD) Clayport Gate     Your mercies fill the earth, O Lord In Melody and Songs.[1]
8.6 8.6 D (CMD) Nevilles Cross PDF MIDI   With all who in this hallowed place
  • High Days and Holy Days.[4]
  • Wesley Music for the Millennium.[3]
8.6 8.6 D (CMD) Whitwell PDF MIDI     Wesley Music for the Millennium.[3]
8.7 8.7 D Finchale Priory PDF MIDI Celebratory tune; descant. We believe in God the Father Top 16 of St. Paul's Cathedral Millennium Hymn competition, 1999.
8.7 8.7 D Haswell PDF MIDI Jazz-flavoured harmony; descant. From the night of ages waking  
8.7 8.7 D Hill Meadows PDF MIDI Celebratory tune; descant. Suitable for music groups. We believe in God the Father
  • Was scheduled for Music for Common Worship I, RSCM, Autumn 2000.
  • Wesley Music for the Millennium.[3]
8.7 8.7 8.7 8.7 7 Elvet Banks PDF MIDI   May God bestow on us his grace

To Jordan came the Christ, our Lord 		Lutheran Service Book: Two texts: May God bestow on us his grace and To Jordan came the Christ, our Lord.[5]
8.8 8.8 (LM) Coniscliffe PDF MIDI   From deep distress and troubled thought
  • Wesley Music for the Millennium.[3]
  • In Melody and Songs.[1]
8.8 8.8 (LM) Kepier        
8.8 8.8 D (LMD) Wharton Park     Bless, O my soul, the living God In Melody and Songs.[1]
8.8 8.8 8.8 Shincliffe St. Mary PDF MIDI Lilting jazz tune suitable for music groups.    
9.8 9.8 Horkstow Grange   Tune collected by Percy Grainger. First known use as a hymn tune. Harmonised and arranged here. O radiant light of his pure glory  
9 9 5 8 10 Elgar 1   Theme from Elgar's First Symphony. First known use as a hymn tune. Sing unto the Lord a fresh new song  
10.10 11.8 Gresford   First known use as a hymn tune. Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord  
10.10 10.10 (10) Erleigh   For five-line texts or 10.10 10.10 with a final-line repeat. O Father God and Sovereign Lord of all  
11.10 11.10 D Chilton and Cornforth PDF MIDI To accompany a text by Timothy Dudley-Smith, who highly commended it. Here on the threshold of a new beginning  
14.14 14.14 Enns     In chaos and nothingness  

[1] In Melody and Songs: Hymns from the Psalm Versions of Isaac Watts, 2014, ISBN 978-1889079592

[2] Psalms for All Seasons, 2012, ISBN 978-1-59255-444-7

[3] Wesley Music for the Millennium

[4] High Days and Holy Days, Canterbury Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-85311-819-7

[5] Lutheran Service Book, 2006, ISBN 978-0-7586-1217-5