All Saints (Darmstadt): hymn tune in Tonic Solfa

All Saints (Darmstadt), the hymn tune, in Tonic Solfa (doh is C): the solfa line by line, staff notation and a piano to sing along with.

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Key: C major
Doh: C
Time: 4/4
Starts on: d' (C)
Range: d to m' (C to E, a tenth)
Metre: 8.7.8.7.7.7
Music: Geistreiches Gesangbuch, Darmstadt

Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune ALL SAINTS (DARMSTADT) (Geistreiches Gesangbuch, Darmstadt). Sources and licences.

The solfa

Doh is C4/4

d'-s-l-l-

s--fm-d-

s-ltd'-t-

l-l-s---

d'-s-l-l-

s--fm-d-

s-ltd'-t-

l-l-s---

r'-r'-r'-d'r'

m'-r'd'r'---

d'-s-ltd'-

r'-r'-d'---

The solfa line by line

The same solfa as plain text, easy to copy into your own notes or a WhatsApp message to the choir. To print it, download the solfa as a PDF.

Doh is C · 4/4

| d' - s - l - l - | s - - f m - d - |

| s - l t d' - t - | l - l - s - - - |

| d' - s - l - l - | s - - f m - d - |

| s - l t d' - t - | l - l - s - - - |

| r' - r' - r' - d' r' | m' - r' d' r' - - - |

| d' - s - l t d' - | r' - r' - d' - - - |

Staff notation

The melody on the treble staff in C major.

The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.

About the tune

Melody (1698): Geistreiches Gesangbuch, Darmstadt

Metre: 8.7.8.7.7.7. Hymns on this site in the same metre: Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty.

Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune ALL SAINTS (DARMSTADT) (Geistreiches Gesangbuch, Darmstadt). The CCEH gives its tunes as four-part scores; this page has the melody only, read from its MIDI file and checked against its incipit, and NoteFusion's engine wrote the solfa from the notes. It has not yet been checked against a printed hymn book.

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

Questions about All Saints (Darmstadt)

What is the doh of All Saints (Darmstadt)?

In this version, in C major, doh is C. 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 All Saints (Darmstadt) start on?

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

What words can be sung to All Saints (Darmstadt)?

All Saints (Darmstadt) is in the metre 8.7.8.7.7.7: lines of 8, 7, 8, 7, 7, 7 syllables. Words written in the same metre fit it, such as Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty; check where the stresses fall before you sing them together.

Is All Saints (Darmstadt) in the public domain?

Yes. the tune was first published in 1698. Everyone named died before 1955 and it was published before 1929, so the tune is out of copyright in Nigeria, the UK, the EU and the United States. Modern arrangements of it can still be under copyright.