One of several projects I was given while in grad school was to write hymn tunes. Make them singable yet harmonically interesting and appropriate to the text; accessible to the average ear yet beautiful and compelling. Here is the first of three hymn tunes that I wrote. Of course, the first place I started was with the text. I discovered this Charles Wesley text on www.hymntime.com and renamed it: Eternal Praise. This text is about just that: the adoration and praise of Christ through all ages and for eternity in heaven. View and print the hymn here. Listen to me playing the hymn here. It is a cut above the cheap MIDI sounds on hymntime to be sure! 
