One thing that may help you when researching hymns is the tune name (as myorgan demonstrated above). The tune and text of a hymn can be two separate things, and matching tunes and texts can be interchanged. Your hymn book may have different tunes matched to the text as other hymn books, and there are likely cultural and regional traditions in place as well.
If you can identify the tune name for a particular hymn you can then use that tune name to research online, as opposed to using the common title or first line (which is obviously problematic when searching outside the vernacular language). Depending on the hymn book, the tune name can be printed beside the composer details, or maybe even beside the common title. It might also have a set of numbers printed beside it these numbers indicate the meter of the text. If the tune and text have the same meter they can be exchanged.
Just noticed something when examining your link and hymnary.org:
The text in your link, Neem my lewe, laat dit Heer has a meter of 77.77.77, with Toplady as the associated tune.
According to Hymnary, Take My Life and Let it Be has a meter of 77777 (that's one 7 less) with the most commonly used tune listed as Hendon.
The meters don't match.
It seems the tune you are looking to study is Toplady, if that is the tune you use at your church, or one with a compatible meter.
If you were wondering how Toplady was found, it is because I recognized it from the linked mp3 for #190. It would have meant more research if the tune was unfamiliar to me. Here's the Hymnary link to that tune
http://www.hymnary.org/tune/toplady_hastings
If you can identify the tune name for a particular hymn you can then use that tune name to research online, as opposed to using the common title or first line (which is obviously problematic when searching outside the vernacular language). Depending on the hymn book, the tune name can be printed beside the composer details, or maybe even beside the common title. It might also have a set of numbers printed beside it these numbers indicate the meter of the text. If the tune and text have the same meter they can be exchanged.
Just noticed something when examining your link and hymnary.org:
The text in your link, Neem my lewe, laat dit Heer has a meter of 77.77.77, with Toplady as the associated tune.
According to Hymnary, Take My Life and Let it Be has a meter of 77777 (that's one 7 less) with the most commonly used tune listed as Hendon.
The meters don't match.
It seems the tune you are looking to study is Toplady, if that is the tune you use at your church, or one with a compatible meter.
If you were wondering how Toplady was found, it is because I recognized it from the linked mp3 for #190. It would have meant more research if the tune was unfamiliar to me. Here's the Hymnary link to that tune
http://www.hymnary.org/tune/toplady_hastings
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