Cleansing Fountain: hymn tune in Tonic Solfa

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

Download the solfa (PDF)A4, free to print and share with your choir

Key: C major
Doh: C
Time: 4/4
Starts on: d (C)
Range: d to m' (C to E, a tenth)
Metre: 8.6.8.6 +.6.6.8.6
Music: American Traditional

Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune CLEANSING FOUNTAIN (American Traditional). Sources and licences.

The solfa

Doh is C4/4

s--ls-d'-

d'--ls-dm

s--slsmd

r-----dm

s--ls-d'-

d'--ls-d'r'

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

d'-----d'r'

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

d'--ld'-l-

s--slsmd

r-----dm

s--ls-d'-

d'--ls-d'r'

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

d'-----

The solfa line by line

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

Doh is C · 4/4

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

| s - - s l s m d | r - - - - - d m |

| s - - l s - d' - | d' - - l s - d' r' |

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

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

| s - - s l s m d | r - - - - - d m |

| s - - l s - d' - | d' - - l s - d' r' |

| m' - - d' r' - m' - | 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 (in print by 1874): American Traditional

Metre: 8.6.8.6 +.6.6.8.6.

Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune CLEANSING FOUNTAIN (American Traditional). 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 Cleansing Fountain

What is the doh of Cleansing Fountain?

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 Cleansing Fountain start on?

It starts on d (C in C major), a pickup before the first full bar. Find doh first, then sing up or down to d.

What words can be sung to Cleansing Fountain?

Cleansing Fountain is in the metre 8.6.8.6 +.6.6.8.6: lines of 8, 6, 8, 6,, then, 6, 6, 8, 6 syllables. Words written in the same metre fit it; check where the stresses fall before you sing them together.

Is Cleansing Fountain in the public domain?

Yes. the tune was first published in 1874. Everyone named died before 1955 and it was published before 1929, so the tune is out of copyright in the UK, the EU, the United States and Nigeria. Modern arrangements of it can still be under copyright.