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.


Name Metre Score Audio Comments
Cenaculum 7 6 7 6 D PDF (choral)
PDF (music group)
MIDI (choral) Published in Wesley Music for the Millennium.
Chilton and Cornforth 11 10 11 10 D PDF MIDI To accompany Here on the threshold of a new beginning by Timothy Dudley-Smith, and highly commended by the author.
Coniscliffe 8 8 8 8 (LM) PDF MIDI Published in Wesley Music for the Millennium.
Elvet Banks 8.7 8.7 8.7 8.7 7 PDF MIDI Published 2006 in Lutheran Service Book, LCMS, Missouri, USA, to Martin Luther's texts May God bestow on us his grace and To Jordan came the Christ, our Lord.
Finchale Priory 8 7 8 7 D PDF MIDI Celebratory tune; descant. Accolades: top 16 of St. Paul's Cathedral Millennium Hymn competition, 1999.
Haswell 8 7 8 7 D PDF MIDI Jazz-flavoured harmony; descant.
Hill Meadows 8 7 8 7 D PDF MIDI Celebratory tune; descant. Suitable for music groups. Was scheduled for publication in Music for Common Worship I, RSCM, Autumn 2000. Published in Wesley Music for the Millennium.
Nevilles Cross 8 6 8 6 D (DCM) PDF MIDI Published in Wesley Music for the Millennium.
Redhills 7 6 7 6 D PDF MIDI A bright, gentle tune with a quasi-Celtic feel.
Shincliffe St. Mary 8.8 8.8 8.8 PDF MIDI Lilting jazz tune suitable for music groups.
Whitwell 8 6 8 6 D (DCM) PDF MIDI Published in Wesley Music for the Millennium.