Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days in Tonic Solfa
Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days in Tonic Solfa: the solfa line by line with the words, staff notation, all 5 verses, and a piano to sing along with.
- Key
- F major
- Doh
- F
- Time
- 4/4
- Starts on
- d (F)
- Range
- t, to s (E to C, a sixth)
- Tune
- ST. FLAVIAN
- Words
- Claudia Frances Ibotson Hernaman
- Music
- From Day's Psalter, 1563
Melody and words from the Open Hymnal Project (public domain), edited by Brian J. Dumont; tune ST. FLAVIAN (From Day's Psalter, 1563); words by Claudia Frances Ibotson Hernaman (1838–1898). Sources and licences.
The solfa with the words
| dLord,- | dwho-t,through--dout-mthese- | rfor--rty-ddays-dFor- |
| fus-mdidst-dfast-rand- | mpray,-----mTeach- |
| mus-fwith-sThee-mto- | dmourn-rour-msins-mAnd- |
| rclose-dby-dThee-t,to- | dstay.----- |
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 F · 4/4
Staff notation
The melody on the treble staff in F major, with the first verse under the notes.
The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.
The words
Lord, who throughout these forty days
For us didst fast and pray,
Teach us with Thee to mourn our sins
And close by Thee to stay.
As Thou with Satan didst contend,
And didst the vict'ry win,
O give us strength in Thee to fight,
In Thee to conquer sin.
As Thou didst hunger bear, and thirst,
So teach us, gracious Lord,
To die to self, and chiefly live
By Thy most holy Word.
And through these days of penitence,
And through Thy passiontide,
Yea, evermore in life and death,
Jesus, with us abide.
Abide with us, that so, this life
Of suff'ring over past,
An Easter of unending joy
We may attain at last.
How to sing it from the solfa
- Find doh first. Play or hum F 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 (F), on the word “Lord”, 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 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
The words are by Claudia Frances Ibotson Hernaman, first published in 1873. The tune, ST. FLAVIAN, is from Day's Psalter, 1563. This version of the melody and the words comes from the Open Hymnal Project.
- Words (1873): Claudia Frances Ibotson Hernaman (1838–1898)
- Melody (1563): From Day's Psalter, 1563
Melody and words from the Open Hymnal Project (public domain), edited by Brian J. Dumont; tune ST. FLAVIAN (From Day's Psalter, 1563); words by Claudia Frances Ibotson Hernaman (1838–1898). The Open Hymnal Project publishes this hymn as public domain; NoteFusion's engine wrote the solfa from its notes. The melody has not yet been checked against a printed hymn book.
Questions about Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days
What is the doh of Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days?
In this version, in F major, doh is F. 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 Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days start on?
It starts on d (F in F major), a pickup on the word “Lord” before the first full bar. Find doh first, then sing up or down to d.
Is Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days in the public domain?
Yes. Claudia Frances Ibotson Hernaman died in 1898; the words were first published in 1873 and the music in 1563. 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.