Hail, Love Divine! Joys Ever New in Tonic Solfa

Hail, Love Divine! Joys Ever New in Tonic Solfa to HOLY MATRIMONY, doh is G: the solfa with the words, staff notation, 3 verses and a piano.

The solfa with the words

Doh is G4/4

s,Hail,-

dlove--ddi-mvine!-djoys-

rev--rer-mnew,-l,While-

l,thy-l,kind-s,dic--dtates-

t,we-dpur--rsue,-rOur-

rsouls-dde--t,light--l,ed-

s,share,-----s,Too-

t,high--dforrsor--fdid-

mminds-dto-rknow,-l,Who-

t,on--rthem-fselves-ma--

dlone-mbe--rstow-fTheir-

mwish--l,es-t,and-t,their-

dcare.-----

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Key: G major
Doh: G
Time: 4/4
Starts on: s, (D)
Range: s, to f (D to C, a seventh)
Tune: HOLY MATRIMONY
Words: Thomas Blacklock
Music: Henry Williams Baker

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 message to the choir. To print it, download the solfa as a PDF.

Doh is G · 4/4

| s, - Hail,| d - - d m - d - love divine! joys| r - r - m - l, - |ever new, While

| l, - l, - s, - d - thy kind dictates| t, - d - r - r - |we pursue, Our

| r - d - t, - l, - souls delighted| s, - - - - - s, - |share, Too

| t, - - d r - f - high for sordid| m - d - r - l, - |minds to know, Who

| t, - - r f - m - on themselves a-| d - m - r - f - |lone bestow Their

| m - l, - t, - t, - wishes and their| d - - - - - |care.

Staff notation

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

The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.

The words

Hail, love divine! joys ever new,
While thy kind dictates we pursue,
Our souls delighted share,
Too high for sordid minds to know,
Who on themselves alone bestow
Their wishes and their care.

By thee inspired, the generous breast,
In blessing others only blest,
With kindness large and free,
Delights the widow's tears to stay,
To teach the blind their smoothest way,
And aid the feeble knee.

O God, with sympathetic care,
In others' joys and griefs to share,
Do thou our hearts incline;
Each low, each selfish wish control,
Warm with benevolence the soul,
And make us wholly thine.

How to sing it from the solfa

Find doh first. Play or hum G 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 s, (D), on the word “Hail”, as a pickup before the first full bar.
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. 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

Thomas Blacklock wrote these words. They were printed in Hymns for Christian Devotion, compiled by John G. Adams and Edwin H. Chapin (Boston, 1846), as hymn 774 of its twenty-second edition (1853), “Christian Beneficence”.

The book printed the words without tunes, marked Common Particular Metre (8.8.6.8.8.6), to be sung to any tune of that metre. This page sets them to HOLY MATRIMONY; any other Common Particular Metre tune fits them as well.

Words: Thomas Blacklock (1721–1791)
Music (1865): Henry Williams Baker (1821–1877)

Melody from the Open Hymnal Project (public domain), edited by Brian J. Dumont; tune HOLY MATRIMONY by Henry Williams Baker (1821–1877); words by Thomas Blacklock (1721–1791). The Open Hymnal Project publishes this tune as public domain; NoteFusion's engine wrote the solfa from its notes. The melody has not yet been checked against a printed hymn book.

Sung to the same tune: Author of Faith, to Thee I Cry, Come, Wisdom, Power, and Grace Divine, He Came to Earth Who Came from God, How Blest the Hearts, How Happy Are the Little Flock, How Happy Is the Pilgrim's Lot, Lord of the Church, We Humbly Pray, O Glorious Hope of Perfect Love, O Jesus, Lover of Our Race, O Saviour, Cast a Gracious Smile, O Son of God, on Thee We Call, O Thou Who Hast Our Sorrows Borne, Safe in the Comfort of Thy Grace, Soft Are the Fruitful Showers That Bring, Still Lord, I Languish for Thy Grace, Thee, Jesu, Thee, the Sinner's Friend, Thou Great Mysterious God Unknown, To Thee My Soul Enraptured Sings, Where’er I Go, Whate’er My Task.

Questions about Hail, Love Divine! Joys Ever New

What is the doh of Hail, Love Divine! Joys Ever New?

In this version, in G major, doh is G. 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 Hail, Love Divine! Joys Ever New start on?

It starts on s, (D in G major), a pickup on the word “Hail” before the first full bar. Find doh first, then sing up or down to s,.

Is Hail, Love Divine! Joys Ever New in the public domain?

Yes. Thomas Blacklock died in 1791, Henry Williams Baker died in 1877; the words were in print by 1853 and the music in 1865. Everyone named died before 1955 and both were published before 1929, so the hymn is out of copyright in the UK, the EU, the United States and Nigeria. Modern arrangements and translations can still be under copyright.