I have found these two places where one can search for a hymn tune by incipit:
Does anyone know of any other online sources?
At this point I’m particularly looking for a hymn with this as incipit: 33132 11765 37776.
It’s in a 1938 hymnal, and a later hymnal attributes it to Ernst Gebhardt (1832-1899), but includes a question mark after the attribution. If there were a source for incipit searches specifically for German hymn tunes, maybe I could find the source that way.
Shouldn’t that incipit start with 5s? (edit: the incipit with 5’s at the hymnary returns a number of example with that tune. Gebhardt appears to have written the hymn, not the tune. The composer appears to be S.J. Vail.)
@phase_Shift,
Thank you. You are right. When the tune is in G major (the key in the Dorico file I attached), I calculate an incipit of 55132 11651 77767. The 1938 hymnal had the tune in the key of B flat major, and I had calculated that incipit I wrote above in this thread.
But I’m no musician, and I may have miscalculated either or both
I have found quite a few hymns at hymnary.org by means of incipit, but I don’t always calculate the incipit correctly.
-Eric
You were right, and I thank you! The tune was composed by S. J. Vail. A hymn text by Gebhardt is often set to that tune, but that is not the hymn text I’m dealing with.
You solved this tune-search project! I appreciate it.
Eric
