Mendon: hymn tune in Tonic Solfa
Mendon, the hymn tune, in Tonic Solfa (doh is Ab): the solfa line by line, staff notation and a piano to sing along with.
- Key
- Ab major
- Doh
- Ab
- Time
- 3/4
- Starts on
- d (A♭)
- Range
- s, to f (E♭ to D♭, a seventh)
- Metre
- 8.8.8.8 — Long Metre (L.M.)
- Music
- German traditional
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune MENDON (German traditional). Sources and licences.
The solfa
| d-t,-d- | s,---d- | t,---d- | r----- |
| d-m-d- | l,---r- | d--rt,- | d----- |
| r-r-r- | m---d- | f---m- | r----- |
| d-m-d- | l,---r- | d--rt,- | 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 Ab · 3/4
Staff notation
The melody on the treble staff in Ab major.
The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.
About the tune
- Melody: German traditional
- Arranged (Third Edition of Sacred Music, 1824): Samuel Dyer (fl. 1824)
Metre: 8.8.8.8 — Long Metre (L.M.). Hymns on this site in the same metre: 'Take Up Thy Cross', the Savior Said, 'Tis Midnight and on Olive's Brow, 'Twas on That Dark, That Doleful Night, All Praise to Thee, My God, This Night, Creator of the Stars of Night (Conditor Alme Siderum, Stylized), Creator of the Stars of Night (Conditor Alme Siderum), From Heaven Above to Earth I Come, From Nazareth.
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune MENDON (German traditional). 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 Mendon
What is the doh of Mendon?
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 Mendon start on?
It starts on d (A♭ in Ab major). Find doh first, then sing up or down to d.
What words can be sung to Mendon?
Mendon is in the metre 8.8.8.8 — Long Metre (L.M.): lines of 8, 8, 8, 8 syllables. Words written in the same metre fit it, such as 'Take Up Thy Cross', the Savior Said, 'Tis Midnight and on Olive's Brow, 'Twas on That Dark, That Doleful Night; check where the stresses fall before you sing them together.
Is Mendon in the public domain?
Yes. Samuel Dyer's work dates from 1824; the tune was first published in 1824. 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.