hymn-tune

Our choir's pre-Epiphany anthem last Sunday was, appropriately, "Epiphany," an 1864 hymn-tune by the great Victorian composer/organist Samuel Sebastian Wesley, setting a venerable old Reginald Heber text.

Star Search Matthew Guerrieri 2009

Our choir's pre-Epiphany anthem last Sunday was, appropriately, "Epiphany," an 1864 hymn-tune by the great Victorian composer/organist Samuel Sebastian Wesley, setting a venerable old Reginald Heber text.

Archive 2009-01-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009

A hymn-tune stirred under the tumult -- rose above it.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

Presently Lisle went back to the piano and tried over a hymn-tune which Mr. Clifton had brought.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 Various

It was this air that Mr. Jerry's dog, as already related, ground out of the barrel-organ, but, besides this particular melody, we do not find that Dickens mentions any other hymn-tune.

Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

I knew they had reached that hill-side where the dead of Ridgefield lie calmer than its living; and presently the long-drawn notes of that hymn-tune consecrated to such occasions -- old China -- rose and fell in despairing cadences on my ear.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

This last piece is of some slight interest from the fact that certain people have claimed that the hymn-tune 'Belmont' is derived therefrom.

Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

A _choral_ is a hymn-tune of the German Protestant Church.

Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

An example of this is the ordinary hymn-tune with its melody in the highest part, and with three other voices forming a "four-part harmony."

Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928

It differs from the ordinary English and American hymn-tune in being usually sung at a much slower tempo, and in having a pause at the end of each line of text.

Music Notation and Terminology Karl Wilson Gehrkens 1928