Many tunes have been composed for the text “Life Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates (Macht hoch die Tür)”—Zahn lists seven, and there are still others composed even later. Those in common use in the Lutheran chorale tradition are:

Macht hoch die Tür (Freylinghausen)

Meter: 8.8. 8.8. 8.8. 6.6.
Composer: Johann A. Freylinghausen, 1704
Proper Text: Life Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates (Macht hoch die Tür)

Zahn No. 5846

Mach hoch die Tür (1661)

Meter: 8.8. 8.8. 8.8. 6.6.
Source: Praxis Pietatis Melica, Berlin, 1661
Proper Text: Life Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates (Macht hoch die Tür)

Zahn No. 5845a