Tantum Ergo (Webbe): hymn tune in Tonic Solfa
Tantum Ergo (Webbe), the hymn tune, in Tonic Solfa (doh is Ab): the solfa line by line, staff notation and a piano to sing along with.
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- Key
- Ab major
- Doh
- Ab
- Time
- 4/4
- Starts on
- d (A♭)
- Range
- s, to s (E♭ to E♭, an octave)
- Metre
- 8.7.8.7.8.7
- Music
- Essay on the Church Plain Chant
- Also called
- Dulce Carmen, Corinth, Alleluia Dulce Carmen
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune TANTUM ERGO (WEBBE) (Essay on the Church Plain Chant). Sources and licences.
The solfa
| d-r-m-f- | s-f-m-r- |
| d-d-d-f- | m-r-d--- |
| l,-l,-s,-s,- | d-d-d-t,- |
| r-s-m-d- | t,-l,-s,--- |
| t,-t,-d-s,- | l,-t,-d-r- |
| mrdt,l,-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 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 (1782): Essay on the Church Plain Chant
- Arranged (1792): Samuel Webbe (1740–1816)
Metre: 8.7.8.7.8.7. Hymns on this site in the same metre: Jesus Came, the Heavens Adoring, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, Lord, Dismiss Us with Thy Blessing, Praise My Soul the King of Heaven.
Melody from the Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary (CCEH, public domain); tune TANTUM ERGO (WEBBE) (Essay on the Church Plain Chant). 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 Tantum Ergo (Webbe)
What is the doh of Tantum Ergo (Webbe)?
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 Tantum Ergo (Webbe) 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 Tantum Ergo (Webbe)?
Tantum Ergo (Webbe) 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 Jesus Came, the Heavens Adoring, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence, Lord, Dismiss Us with Thy Blessing; check where the stresses fall before you sing them together.
Is Tantum Ergo (Webbe) in the public domain?
Yes. Samuel Webbe died in 1816; the tune was first published in 1782. 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.