Sing the tune to yourself with "lah, lah, lah ..." and write down if the pitch
moves up (U), down (D) or stays the same (S) between the first 9 notes, and you will
obtain an 8-letter code- word defining the tune's Category. Using this Search Engine, you
can display a list of tunes belonging to that Category. So instead of a manual search through
many hymn books, looking at thousands of hymns, your search is narrowed to a mere handful of
tunes, often just one, easily found in a hymn book TUNE index.
SEARCH INPUT
Enter the eight characters of the Category code ( e.g. DDUDSDUU )
(in either upper or lower case) and then click on SEARCH.
Always remember that the Name of a tune often differs from the opening
words of the associated hymn. Also, different words may be set to the same tune in
different hymn books. To a lesser degree, different books can associate a tune with different Names - overall
there are about 10% more Names than there are distinct tunes.
HYMN TUNE FINDER