Hymn #213: Hosanna, Loud Hosanna
ELLACOMBE is the name of the anonymous tune traced to eighteenth-century German Roman Catholic hymnbooks. Its earliest known use was in 1784 in Wirtemberg, Germany. The tune has long been a popular choir for this text; it appears three times in The New Century Hymnal.
ELLACOMBE was first found in Gesangbuch der Herzoglichen Wirtembergischen Katholischen Hofkapell, a Roman Catholic hymnbook published at Wirtemberg, Germany, in 1784. What is most unusual about this Roman Catholic hymnbook is that most of the hymns were by Protestants.