"Old Hundred", also known as "Old Hundredth" is one of the best-known tunes in the shape note hymnals. It is usually attributed to Louis Bourgeois (c. 1510 - 1561). It appears in Pseaumes Octante Trois de David (1551) (the second edition of the Genevan Psalter) where it was used as a setting for psalm 134. It was associated with psalm 100 in the Anglo-Genevan Psalter of 1561.
It appears in The Sacred Harp and The Southern Harmony. According to hymnary.org, it has been published in 1600 hymnals.
This tune is used for several hymn lyrics:
  • William Kethe's "All People Who on Earth do dwell"
  • Isaac Watts' "Before Jehovah's Awesome Throne"
  • Isaac Watts' "From All That Dwell Below the Skies"
  • Thomas Ken's "Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow"
It was used by Johann Sebastian Bach as a cantus firmus in his chorale cantata Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir (BWV 130). It also appears in various forms in Hubert Parry's Three Chorale Fantasias, Virgil Thomson's The Plow that Broke the Plains (1936), Paul Hindemith's Trauermusik (1936), Benjamin Britten's cantata St Nicolas (1948), Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in C minor Op 66, 4th movement Finale and in other compositions.