Meter: 8.8.8.8Appears in 1,892 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Sources: Melody from French-Genevan Psalter, 1551Tune Key: G Major or modalIncipit: 11765 12333 32143 Used With Text: Before Jehovah's awesome throne
Meter: 14.14.4.7.8Appears in 413 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Sources: Praxis Pietatis Melica, 1688 edn., as set in The Chorale Book for England, 1863Tune Key: G Major or modalIncipit: 11532 17656 7121 Used With Text: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation
Meter: 8.8.8.8Appears in 127 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: James William Elliott, 1833-1915Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Key: B Flat MajorIncipit: 51532 16534 56713 Used With Text: The Lord is King! lift up thy voice
Meter: 8.7.8.7 DAppears in 712 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Franz Joseph Haydn, 1732-1809Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Sources: Based on a Croatian folk songTune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 12324 32716 54323 Used With Text: Praise the Lord! ye heavens, adore him
Meter: 8.8.8.8Appears in 73 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Henry Gladstone, 1840-91Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Key: C MajorIncipit: 32144 44334 56627 Used With Text: Lord of all being, throned afar
Meter: 8.8.8.8Appears in 124 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God MorningTune Sources: Grenoble Antiphoner, 1753Tune Key: C MajorIncipit: 13515 43211 31671 Used With Text: Awake, my soul, and with the sun
Meter: 7.7 with refrainAppears in 76 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Benjamin Milgrove, 1731-1810Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Key: A Flat MajorIncipit: 55112 23114 32123 Used With Text: Let us with a gladsome mind
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 245 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Sources: Crüger's Praxis Pietatis Melica, 1647 edn. (rhythm altered)Tune Key: G Major or modalIncipit: 16512 33235 43215 Used With Text: Within thy tabernacle, Lord
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 135 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry John Gauntlett, 1805-76Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 55126 54353 56171 Used With Text: To render thanks unto the Lord
Meter: 11.11.11.5Appears in 140 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God MorningTune Sources: Paris Antiphoner, 1681Tune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 53432 13455 65567 Used With Text: Father, we praise thee, now the night is over
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7Appears in 93 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Purcell; Ernest Hawkins, 1802-58Topics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Sources: From the concluding Alleluias in a Purcell anthem; Arr.: The Psalmist, 1842Tune Key: B Flat MajorIncipit: 35314 27512 32176 Used With Text: Christ is made the sure foundation
Meter: 11.11.11.11Appears in 248 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Sources: Welsh hymn melody, 1839, founded on a folk tuneTune Key: A MajorIncipit: 16427 51332 11642 Used With Text: Immortal, invisible, God only wise
Meter: 7.7.7.7Appears in 206 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Sources: Simplified form of a melody in Freylinghausen's Geistreiches Gesangbuch, 1704Tune Key: D MajorIncipit: 13556 71725 76655 Used With Text: Songs of praise the angels sang
Meter: 6.6.8.6Appears in 318 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God MorningTune Sources: Derived from the melody of Psalm 101 in French-Genevan Psalter 1551Tune Key: A Flat MajorIncipit: 51322 35432 21176 Used With Text: This is the day of light
Meter: 8.8.8.8Appears in 208 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: François Hippolyte Barthélémon, 1741-1808; Samuel Sebastian Wesley, 1810-76Topics: Approach to God MorningTune Key: A Flat MajorIncipit: 12333 43222 5454 Used With Text: Awake, my soul, and with the sun
Meter: 11.11.11.5Appears in 18 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Sources: Chartres Antiphoner, 1784; Arr.: The BBC Hymn Book, 1951Tune Key: G Major or modalIncipit: 51765 17123 35534 Used With Text: Father most holy, merciful and loving
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Alcock, 1715-1806Topics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Key: B Flat MajorIncipit: 16273 12171 Used With Text: O be joyful in the Lord all ye lands
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8 with refrainAppears in 482 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Wiliams, 1872-1958Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Sources: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, Cologne, 1623Tune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 11231 34511 23134 Used With Text: O praise him, O praise him
Meter: 8.8.8.8Appears in 378 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel Webbe, the elder, 1740-1816Topics: Approach to God MorningTune Sources: An Essay on the Church Plain-chant, 1782Tune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 55432 16551 76554 Used With Text: New every morning is the love
Meter: 10.10.11.11Appears in 329 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Croft, 1678-1727Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Sources: A Supplement to the New Version, 1708Tune Key: A MajorIncipit: 51123 51271 23217 Used With Text: O worship the King all-glorious above
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7Appears in 347 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Sources: Later form of a melody in Geistliche Lieder, Wittenberg, 1533 or earlierTune Key: G Major or modalIncipit: 11321 22313 45321 Used With Text: We come unto our father's God
Meter: 7.7 with refrainAppears in 239 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Antes, 1740-1811; John Bernard Wilkes, 1785-1869Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Key: C MajorIncipit: 13534 56713 32176 Used With Text: Let us with a gladsome mind
Meter: 6.6.8.6Appears in 132 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles Lockhart, 1745-1815Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 15132 17114 56514 Used With Text: Stand up, and bless the Lord
Meter: 6.6.6.6Appears in 84 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Lascelles Jenner, 1820-98Topics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Sources: Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861Tune Key: F Major or modalIncipit: 34332 15632 12235 Used With Text: We love the place, O God
Meter: 12.10.12.10Appears in 57 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Sources: Rheinhardt MSTune Key: C MajorIncipit: 11233 54323 33212 Used With Text: Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness
Appears in 25 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Frederick A. Gore Ouseley 1825-89Topics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Key: E MajorIncipit: 51642 53221 Used With Text: O be joyful in the Lord all ye lands
Appears in 18 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George Alexander Macfarren, 1813-87Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Key: a flat minorIncipit: 12346 71171 Used With Text: O come let us sing unto the Lord
Appears in 16 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Goss, 1800-80Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Key: a flat minorIncipit: 13243 21171 Used With Text: O come let us sing unto the Lord
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 281 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Sources: Psalm 132 in English Psalter, 1562 (first half only), adapted 1599 and laterTune Key: F Major or modalIncipit: 11713 22114 31233 Used With Text: I love the Lord, because my voice
Meter: 6.4.6.6Appears in 43 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Herbert Stephen Irons, 1834-1905Topics: Approach to God EveningTune Key: F Major or modalIncipit: 54322 13562 55323 Used With Text: The sun is sinking fast
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 168 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Isaac Smith, 1734-1805Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Sources: A Collection of Psalm Tunes, c. 1780Tune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 15117 65433 23655 Used With Text: Praise waits for thee in Zion, Lord
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 136 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Lahee, 1826-1912Topics: Approach to God MorningTune Key: B Flat MajorIncipit: 33355 11321 66217 Used With Text: O Lord of life, thy quickening voice
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 38 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Sources: Wilkins' Psalmody, ca. 1730; As in The Psalter in Metre, 1899Tune Key: G Major or modalIncipit: 15153 43211 23432 Used With Text: God shall endure for aye; he doth
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 147 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Sources: Scottish Psalter, 1635, as adapted in Playford's Psalms, 1671Tune Key: D MajorIncipit: 15315 61751 35215 Used With Text: Thy mercy, Lord, is in the heavens
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 126 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Hilton, d. 1608Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Sources: Old Church Psalmody, 1847; Adapted from an anthem probably by John HiltonTune Key: G Major or modalIncipit: 11232 14223 45545 Used With Text: The Lord's my light and saving health
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 65 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625Topics: Approach to God MorningTune Sources: Prys' Llyrf y Psalmau, 1621 (rhythm altered)Tune Key: D MajorIncipit: 15345 66551 67761 Used With Text: Lord, thee my God, I'll early seek
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 32 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Sources: Scottish Psalter, 1615 (1635 rhythm)Tune Key: d minor or modalIncipit: 13153 21557 5615 Used With Text: O send thy light forth and thy truth
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 143 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Sources: A Collection of Hymns and Sacred Poems, Dublin, 1749Tune Key: E MajorIncipit: 11512 34323 53451 Used With Text: O come, and let us to the Lord
Meter: 10.10.10.10Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Kenneth LeightonTopics: Approach to God MorningTune Key: D MajorIncipit: 55665 45312 31556 Used With Text: Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day
Meter: 12.10.12.10Appears in 12 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Smart, 1813-79Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Sources: The Presbyterian Hymnal, 1877Tune Key: G Major or modalIncipit: 35234 56543 21543 Used With Text: Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 47 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Sources: Ravenscroft's Psalter, 1621 (rhythm altered)Tune Key: G Major or modalIncipit: 54231 22143 22122 Used With Text: Ye righteous, in the Lord rejoice
Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.4Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Basil Harwood, 1859-1949Topics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Key: D MajorIncipit: 13511 23465 43571 Used With Text: Lift up your heads, ye mighty gates
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 30 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Harington, 1727-1816Topics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 51765 43456 65554 Used With Text: How lovely is thy dwelling-place
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 3 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God MorningTune Sources: Traditional Carol Melody from Rimbault's Old English Carols, 1865)Tune Key: D MajorIncipit: 13567 15356 17657 Used With Text: The morning bright, with rosy light
Meter: 6.6.6.6Appears in 14 hymnalsTopics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Sources: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, Cologne, 1623; Alt: Psalteriolum Harmonicum, 1652 (rhythm slightly altered)Tune Key: G Major or modalIncipit: 11512 35432 23333 Used With Text: This is God's holy house
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: John CurrieTopics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Key: A MajorIncipit: 56131 2 Used With Text: O come let us sing unto the Lord
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas WilsonTopics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Key: d minor or modalIncipit: 13555 31357 76545 Used With Text: S.M.
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8Appears in 124 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Carey, c. 1687-1743Topics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Key: F Major or modalIncipit: 54361 71432 33256 Used With Text: Lord Jesus, be thou with us now
Meter: 8.7.8.7Appears in 53 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Wiliams, 1872-1958Topics: Approach to God The House of GodTune Sources: English Traditional Melody, collected by Lucy Broadwood, 1858-1929Tune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 13565 43231 13565 Used With Text: Serve the Lord with joy and gladness
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 12 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Christopher Tye, c. 1508-72Topics: Approach to God The Majesty of GodTune Sources: The Actes of the Apostles, 1663Tune Key: G Major or modalIncipit: 51234 54343 21172 Used With Text: O sing a new song to the Lord