Liebster Immanuel: hymn tune in Tonic Solfa

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

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Key: B minor
Doh: D
Time: 3/4
Starts on: d' (D)
Range: d to d' (D to D, an octave)
Metre: 11.10.11.10
Music: Himmels-Lust

Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune LIEBSTER IMMANUEL (Himmels-Lust). Sources and licences.

The solfa

Doh is D3/4

d'-d'-d'-

t--ls-

l-f-m-

r---d-

s-s-m-

l--td'-

d-r--m

m-----

m-m-f-

s-m--m

l-se-l-

t-m---

d'-t-l-

se--ml-

td'se--l

l-----

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 D · 3/4

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

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

| m - m - f - | s - m - - m | l - se - l - | t - m - - - |

| d' - t - l - | se - - m l - | t d' se - - l | l - - - - - |

Staff notation

The melody on the treble staff in B minor.

The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.

About the tune

Melody (1675): Himmels-Lust
Harmony: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Metre: 11.10.11.10. Hymns on this site in the same metre: Come, Ye Disconsolate.

Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune LIEBSTER IMMANUEL (Himmels-Lust). 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. The arranger named above set CCEH's harmony, which is not shown here.

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

Questions about Liebster Immanuel

What is the doh of Liebster Immanuel?

In this version, in B minor, doh is D. 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 Liebster Immanuel start on?

It starts on d' (D in B minor). Find doh first, then sing up or down to d'.

What words can be sung to Liebster Immanuel?

Liebster Immanuel is in the metre 11.10.11.10: lines of 11, 10, 11, 10 syllables. Words written in the same metre fit it, such as Come, Ye Disconsolate; check where the stresses fall before you sing them together.

Is Liebster Immanuel in the public domain?

Yes. Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750; the tune was first published in 1675. 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.