Fortitude (Palmer): hymn tune in Tonic Solfa
Fortitude (Palmer), the hymn tune, in Tonic Solfa (doh is Ab): the solfa, staff notation and a piano to sing along with.
Download the solfa (PDF)A4, free to print and share with your choir
- Key
- Ab major
- Doh
- Ab
- Time
- 6/8
- Starts on
- m (C)
- Range
- s, to f (E♭ to D♭, a seventh)
- Metre
- 11.11.11.11 +.7.7.7.6
- Also called
- Palmer
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune FORTITUDE (PALMER) by Horatio Richmond Palmer (1834–1907). Sources and licences.
The solfa
| m--mfm | r--r-- | d--drd | t,----- |
| l,--l,t,d | s,--d-- | r--rdr | m----- |
| m--mfm | r--r-- | d--drd | t,----- |
| l,--l,t,d | s,--d-- | m-mrdr | d----- |
| s,-s,s,l,s, | s,--d-- | r-rrdr | m--d-- |
| d-ddt,l, | s,--d-- | m-mrdr | 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 Ab · 6/8
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 (1868): Horatio Richmond Palmer (1834–1907)
Metre: 11.11.11.11 +.7.7.7.6.
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune FORTITUDE (PALMER) by Horatio Richmond Palmer (1834–1907). 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 Fortitude (Palmer)
What is the doh of Fortitude (Palmer)?
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 Fortitude (Palmer) start on?
It starts on m (C in Ab major). Find doh first, then sing up or down to m.
What words can be sung to Fortitude (Palmer)?
Fortitude (Palmer) is in the metre 11.11.11.11 +.7.7.7.6: lines of 11, 11, 11, 11,, then, 7, 7, 7, 6 syllables. Words written in the same metre fit it; check where the stresses fall before you sing them together.
Is Fortitude (Palmer) in the public domain?
Yes. Horatio Richmond Palmer died in 1907; the tune was first published in 1868. 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.