Crown Him with Many Crowns in Tonic Solfa

Crown Him with Many Crowns in Tonic Solfa to DIADEMATA, doh is D: the solfa with the words, staff notation, five verses and a piano.

Key: D major
Doh: D
Time: 4/4
Starts on: d (D)
Range: d to d' (D to D, an octave)
Tune: DIADEMATA
Words: Matthew Bridges
Music: George Job Elvey

Tune DIADEMATA by George Job Elvey (1816–1893); words by Matthew Bridges (1800–1894). Sources and licences.

The solfa with the words

Doh is D4/4

dCrown-dHimdwithmman--my-

lcrowns,-----lThe-

sLamb-dup--fon-mHis-

rthrone;-----rHark!-

mhow-sthe-lheav’n--sly-

fean--mthemr_sdrowns-d'All-

tmu--d'sic-lbut-lits-

sown:-----sA--

swake,-mmy-rsoul,-dand-

lsing-----lOf-

lHim-fewho-mdied-rfor-

tthee,-----tAnd-

d'hail--tHimlas-sthy-

fmatch--rless-mKing-sThrough-

fall-me--rter--rni--

dty.-------

The solfa line by line

The same solfa as plain text, a line of the hymn at a time, with the words of the first verse under it — easy to copy into your own notes or a WhatsApp message to the choir.

Doh is D · 4/4

| d - d d m - m - Crown Him with many| l - - - - - l - |crowns, The

| s - d - f - m - Lamb upon His| r - - - - - r - |throne; Hark!

| m - s - l - s - how the heav’nly| fe - m r s - d' - |anthem drowns All

| t - d' - l - l - music but its| s - - - - - s - |own: A-

| s - m - r - d - wake, my soul, and| l - - - - - l - |sing Of

| l - fe - m - r - Him who died for| t - - - - - t - |thee, And

| d' - - t l - s - hail Him as thy| f - r - m - s - |matchless King Through

| f - m - r - r - all eterni-| d - - - - - - - |ty.

Staff notation

The melody on the treble staff in D major, with the first verse under the notes.

The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.

The words

Crown Him with many crowns,
The Lamb upon His throne;
Hark! how the heavenly anthem drowns
All music but its own:
Awake, my soul, and sing
Of Him who died for thee,
And hail Him as thy matchless King
Through all eternity.

Crown Him the Virgin’s Son,
The God incarnate born,
Whose arm those crimson trophies won
Which now His brow adorn;
Fruit of the mystic Rose,
As of that Rose the Stem;
The Root whence mercy ever flows,
The Babe of Bethlehem.

Crown Him the Lord of love!
Behold His hands and side,
Rich wounds, yet visible above,
In beauty glorified:
No angel in the sky
Can fully bear that sight,
But downward bends his burning eye
At mysteries so bright.

Crown Him the Lord of peace!
Whose power a sceptre sways
From pole to pole, that wars may cease,
Absorbed in prayer and praise:
His reign shall know no end,
And round His piercèd feet
Fair flowers of Paradise extend
Their fragrance ever sweet.

Crown Him the Lord of years,
The Potentate of time,
Creator of the rolling spheres,
Ineffably sublime:
All hail, Redeemer, hail!
For Thou hast died for me;
Thy praise shall never, never fail
Throughout eternity.

How to sing it from the solfa

Find doh first. Play or hum D and sing d r m f s up from it, so the whole choir has the key in their ears before you start.
Pitch the first note. The tune starts on d (D).
Count the time. 4/4 means four crotchet beats in each bar. In the grid every cell is half a crotchet: a dash (–) holds the note before it, and _ is a rest.
Know the notes. The tune uses d r m f s l t and the chromatic fe. A comma after a note (s,) is the octave below; an apostrophe (d') is the octave above.

New to solfa? Read how to read Tonic Solfa and how to find the doh of a song.

About the hymn

Matthew Bridges published Crown Him with Many Crowns in 1851. George Job Elvey, organist of St George's Chapel, Windsor, wrote the tune DIADEMATA for it in 1868; the name is Greek for 'crowns'.

Words (1851): Matthew Bridges (1800–1894)
Melody (1868): George Job Elvey (1816–1893)

Tune DIADEMATA by George Job Elvey (1816–1893); words by Matthew Bridges (1800–1894).

Questions about Crown Him with Many Crowns

What is the doh of Crown Him with Many Crowns?

In this version, in D major, doh is D. If your choir sings it in another key, doh moves to the new key note and every solfa syllable stays the same — that is what movable doh means.

What note does Crown Him with Many Crowns start on?

It starts on d (D in D major). Find doh first, then sing up or down to d.

Is Crown Him with Many Crowns in the public domain?

Yes. Matthew Bridges died in 1894, George Job Elvey died in 1893; the words were first published in 1851 and the music in 1868. Everyone named died before 1955 and both were published before 1929, so the hymn is out of copyright in Nigeria, the UK, the EU and the United States. Modern arrangements and translations can still be under copyright.