Malvern (Gwyllt): hymn tune in Tonic Solfa
Malvern (Gwyllt), the hymn tune, in Tonic Solfa (doh is Bb): the solfa line by line, staff notation and a piano to sing along with.
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- Key
- Bb major
- Doh
- Bb
- Time
- 2/4
- Starts on
- s, (F)
- Range
- m, to f (D to E♭, a ninth)
- Metre
- 6.6.4.6.6.6.4
- Music
- The Hallelujah
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune MALVERN (GWYLLT) (The Hallelujah). Sources and licences.
The solfa
| s,--- | m,-s,- | d-r- | d--- |
| d--- | l,-d- | r-m- | r--- |
| d--- | t,-l,- | s,--- | m--- |
| m-r- | d-t,- | l,--- | r--- |
| r-d- | t,-l,- | s,--- | s,--- |
| l,-t,- | d-r- | m--- | f--- |
| m-r- | 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. To print it, download the solfa as a PDF.
Doh is Bb · 2/4
Staff notation
The melody on the treble staff in Bb major.
The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.
About the tune
- Melody (1849): The Hallelujah
- Arranged: John Roberts (1822–1877)
Metre: 6.6.4.6.6.6.4. Hymns on this site in the same metre: God Bless Our Native Land, God, Whose Almighty Word, My Faith Looks Up to Thee.
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune MALVERN (GWYLLT) (The Hallelujah). 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 Malvern (Gwyllt)
What is the doh of Malvern (Gwyllt)?
In this version, in Bb major, doh is Bb. 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 Malvern (Gwyllt) start on?
It starts on s, (F in Bb major). Find doh first, then sing up or down to s,.
What words can be sung to Malvern (Gwyllt)?
Malvern (Gwyllt) is in the metre 6.6.4.6.6.6.4: lines of 6, 6, 4, 6, 6, 6, 4 syllables. Words written in the same metre fit it, such as God Bless Our Native Land, God, Whose Almighty Word, My Faith Looks Up to Thee; check where the stresses fall before you sing them together.
Is Malvern (Gwyllt) in the public domain?
Yes. John Roberts died in 1877; the tune was first published in 1849. 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.