O Worship the Lord: hymn tune in Tonic Solfa

O Worship the Lord, the hymn tune by Robert Lowry, in Tonic Solfa (doh is Eb): the solfa line by line, staff notation and a piano to sing along with.

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Key: Eb major
Doh: Eb
Time: 3/4
Starts on: s (B♭)
Range: d to d' (E♭ to E♭, an octave)
Metre: Irregular
Music: Robert Lowry

Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune O WORSHIP THE LORD by Robert Lowry (1826–1899). Sources and licences.

The solfa

Doh is Eb3/4

s-m-d-

s---s-,s

s-m-d-

m-,rr-r-,m

f-m-r-

m-,fs-s-,s

f-m-r-

d-,dd-__

m-m-m-,f

s-s-d'-

t-l-fl

s-m-s-

l-s-d'-,l

s-m-fm

rst-l-

s-l-t-

d'--d'tl

s-m-s-,s

sfr-l-,l

lsm-s-

d'-,d'd'-t-

l-l-d'l

s-,fm-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 Eb · 3/4

| s - | s - m - d - | s - - - s -,s | s - m - d - | m -,r r - r -,m |

| f - m - r - | m -,f s - s -,s | f - m - r - | d -,d d - _ _ |

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

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

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

Staff notation

The melody on the treble staff in Eb major.

The staff is drawn here when you scroll to it.

About the tune

Music (1914): Robert Lowry (1826–1899)

Metre: Irregular.

Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune O WORSHIP THE LORD by Robert Lowry (1826–1899). 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 O Worship the Lord

What is the doh of O Worship the Lord?

In this version, in Eb major, doh is Eb. 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 O Worship the Lord start on?

It starts on s (B♭ in Eb major), a pickup before the first full bar. Find doh first, then sing up or down to s.

Is O Worship the Lord in the public domain?

Yes. Robert Lowry died in 1899; the tune was first published in 1914. 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.