Ellers: hymn tune in Tonic Solfa
Ellers, the hymn tune by Edward John Hopkins, in Tonic Solfa (doh is Ab): the solfa line by line, staff notation and a piano to sing along with.
- Key
- Ab major
- Doh
- Ab
- Time
- 4/4
- Starts on
- s, (E♭)
- Range
- s, to s (E♭ to E♭, an octave)
- Metre
- 10.10.10.10
- Music
- Edward John Hopkins
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune ELLERS by Edward John Hopkins (1818–1901). Sources and licences.
The solfa
| s,---s,-l,- | s,---d--- |
| d-t,-d-r- | m------- |
| d---d-r- | d---m--- |
| m-r-m-fe- | s------- |
| s---d-d- | f---f--- |
| f-r-m-f- | m------- |
| d---r-d- | d---l,--- |
| s,-s,-l,-s,- | s,------- |
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.
Doh is Ab · 4/4
Staff notation
The melody on the treble staff in Ab major.
The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.
About the tune
- Music (1869): Edward John Hopkins (1818–1901)
Metre: 10.10.10.10. Hymns on this site in the same metre: Not Worthy, Lord, to Gather Up the Crumbs.
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune ELLERS by Edward John Hopkins (1818–1901). 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 Ellers
What is the doh of Ellers?
In this version, in Ab major, doh is Ab. 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 Ellers start on?
It starts on s, (E♭ in Ab major). Find doh first, then sing up or down to s,.
What words can be sung to Ellers?
Ellers is in the metre 10.10.10.10: lines of 10, 10, 10, 10 syllables. Words written in the same metre fit it, such as Not Worthy, Lord, to Gather Up the Crumbs; check where the stresses fall before you sing them together.
Is Ellers in the public domain?
Yes. Edward John Hopkins died in 1901; the tune was first published in 1869. 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.