Gloria Patria (Meineke): hymn tune in Tonic Solfa
Gloria Patria (Meineke), the hymn tune, in Tonic Solfa (doh is A): the solfa, staff notation and a piano to sing along with.
- Key
- A major
- Doh
- A
- Time
- 4/4
- Starts on
- d (A)
- Range
- f, to s (D to E, a ninth)
- Metre
- Irregular
- Music
- Charles Meineke
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune GLORIA PATRIA (MEINEKE) by Charles Meineke (fl. 1844). Sources and licences.
The solfa
| d--dd-dd | r-r-____ |
| r---r-s- | r-r-r-d- |
| t,---l,--- | s,---__s,s, |
| d-d-d-m- | m-r-__s,- |
| r--rr-f- | f-m-____ |
| d---m-d- | l,---f,--- |
| s,---t,--- | 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.
Doh is A · 4/4
Staff notation
The melody on the treble staff in A major.
The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.
About the tune
- Music (1844): Charles Meineke (fl. 1844)
Metre: Irregular.
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune GLORIA PATRIA (MEINEKE) by Charles Meineke (fl. 1844). 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 Gloria Patria (Meineke)
What is the doh of Gloria Patria (Meineke)?
In this version, in A major, doh is A. 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 Gloria Patria (Meineke) start on?
It starts on d (A in A major). Find doh first, then sing up or down to d.
Is Gloria Patria (Meineke) in the public domain?
Yes. Charles Meineke's work dates from 1844; the tune was first published in 1844. 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.