On What Has Now Been Sown in Tonic Solfa
On What Has Now Been Sown in Tonic Solfa: the solfa line by line with the words, staff notation, all 3 verses, and a piano to sing along with.
- Key
- D major
- Doh
- D
- Time
- 4/4
- Starts on
- d (D)
- Range
- d to r' (D to E, a ninth)
- Tune
- DARWALL
- Words
- John Newton
- Music
- John Darwall
Melody and words from the Open Hymnal Project (public domain), edited by Brian J. Dumont; tune DARWALL by John Darwall (1731–1789); words by John Newton (1725–1807). Sources and licences.
The solfa with the words
| dOn- | mwhat-dhas-snow-mbeen- | d'sown-----tThy- |
| lbless--sing,-fLord,-mbe-- | rstow;-----rThe- |
| mpow'r-dis-lThine-sa-- | felone-rTo-r'make-d'it- |
| tspring---land--- | sgrow.-----sDo- |
| lThou---tin--- | d'grace-----dthe- |
| rhar--mvest-fraise,-sAnd- | lThou-ta--d'lone-r'shalt- |
| d'have---tthe--- | d'praise.----- |
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
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
On what has now been sown
Thy blessing, Lord, bestow;
The pow'r is Thine alone
To make it spring and grow.
Do Thou in grace the harvest raise,
And Thou alone shalt have the praise.
To Thee our wants are known,
From Thee are all our pow'rs;
Accept what is Thine own
And pardon what is ours.
Our praises, Lord, and prayers receive
And to Thy Word a blessing give.
Oh, grant that each of us
Now met before Thee here
May meet together thus
When Thou and Thine appear
And follow Thee to Heav'n, our home.
E'en so, Amen, Lord Jesus, come!
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), on the word “On”, 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 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
The words are by John Newton, first published in 1779. The tune, DARWALL, is by John Darwall (1770). This version of the melody and the words comes from the Open Hymnal Project.
- Words (1779): John Newton (1725–1807)
- Music (1770): John Darwall (1731–1789)
Melody and words from the Open Hymnal Project (public domain), edited by Brian J. Dumont; tune DARWALL by John Darwall (1731–1789); words by John Newton (1725–1807). 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 On What Has Now Been Sown
What is the doh of On What Has Now Been Sown?
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 On What Has Now Been Sown start on?
It starts on d (D in D major), a pickup on the word “On” before the first full bar. Find doh first, then sing up or down to d.
Is On What Has Now Been Sown in the public domain?
Yes. John Newton died in 1807, John Darwall died in 1789; the words were first published in 1779 and the music in 1770. 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.