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 |
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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 | MIDI | With all who in this hallowed place | |||
8.6 8.6 D (CMD) | Whitwell | MIDI | Wesley Music for the Millennium.[3] | |||
8.7 8.7 D | Finchale Priory | 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 | MIDI | Jazz-flavoured harmony; descant. | From the night of ages waking | ||
8.7 8.7 D | Hill Meadows | MIDI | Celebratory tune; descant. Suitable for music groups. | We believe in God the Father |
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8.7 8.7 8.7 8.7 7 | Elvet Banks | 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 | MIDI | From deep distress and troubled thought | |||
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 | 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 | 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, Darcey Press, ISBN 978-1889079592
[2] Psalms for All Seasons, 2012, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, 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, Concordia Press, ISBN 978-0-7586-1217-5