Spanish Hymn: hymn tune in Tonic Solfa
Spanish Hymn, 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
- 4/4
- Starts on
- d (A♭)
- Range
- s, to f (E♭ to D♭, a seventh)
- Metre
- 7.7.7.7.7.7;6.6.6.6
- Music
- Spanish Traditional
- Also called
- Spanish Chant
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune SPANISH HYMN (Spanish Traditional). Sources and licences.
The solfa
| d--dt,-d- | l,-d-s,--- |
| m-d-f-r- | d-t,-d--- |
| m--mr-m- | f-m-r--- |
| m--mr-m- | f-m-r--- |
| d--dt,-d- | l,-d-s,--- |
| m-d-f-r- | d-t,-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 · 4/4
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: Spanish Traditional
- Arranged (1822): Benjamin Carr (fl. 1822)
- Harmony (1927): David Evans (1874–1948)
Metre: 7.7.7.7.7.7;6.6.6.6.
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune SPANISH HYMN (Spanish 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 Spanish Hymn
What is the doh of Spanish Hymn?
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 Spanish Hymn 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 Spanish Hymn?
Spanish Hymn is in the metre 7.7.7.7.7.7;6.6.6.6: lines of 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7;6, 6, 6, 6 syllables. Words written in the same metre fit it; check where the stresses fall before you sing them together.
Is Spanish Hymn in the public domain?
Yes. Benjamin Carr's work dates from 1822, David Evans died in 1948; the tune was first published in 1822. 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.