Mannheim: hymn tune in Tonic Solfa
Mannheim, the hymn tune by Friedrich Filitz, in Tonic Solfa (doh is E): the solfa line by line, staff notation and a piano to sing along with.
Download the solfa (PDF)A4, free to print and share with your choir
- Key
- E major
- Doh
- E
- Time
- 4/4
- Starts on
- d (E)
- Range
- d to ta (E to C𝄪, a seventh)
- Metre
- 8.7.8.7.8.7
- Music
- Friedrich Filitz
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune MANNHEIM by Friedrich Filitz (1804–1876). Sources and licences.
The solfa
| d-m-s-s- | l-s-f-m- |
| m-f-s-d- | m-r-d--- |
| s-s-l-s- | ta-l-l-s- |
| s-r-m-l- | s-fe-s--- |
| d-m-s-s- | l-s-f-m- |
| m-f-s-d- | m-r-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 E · 4/4
Staff notation
The melody on the treble staff in E major.
The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.
About the tune
- Music (1847): Friedrich Filitz (1804–1876)
Metre: 8.7.8.7.8.7. Hymns on this site in the same metre: Alleluia, Hymn of Sweetness, Gracious Savior, Gentle Shepherd, Jesus Came, the Heavens Adoring, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, Lord, Dismiss Us with Thy Blessing, Praise My Soul the King of Heaven, Terror Grim the Soul Oppresses, Thirty Years by God Appointed.
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune MANNHEIM by Friedrich Filitz (1804–1876). 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 Mannheim
What is the doh of Mannheim?
In this version, in E major, doh is E. 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 Mannheim start on?
It starts on d (E in E major). Find doh first, then sing up or down to d.
What words can be sung to Mannheim?
Mannheim is in the metre 8.7.8.7.8.7: lines of 8, 7, 8, 7, 8, 7 syllables. Words written in the same metre fit it, such as Alleluia, Hymn of Sweetness, Gracious Savior, Gentle Shepherd, Jesus Came, the Heavens Adoring; check where the stresses fall before you sing them together.
Is Mannheim in the public domain?
Yes. Friedrich Filitz died in 1876; the tune was first published in 1847. 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.