Hymns Music Christianity
Hymns are primarily songs sung by congregations in worship. Unlike "anthems", the music is short--2 to 12 lines or so, with 4 to 8 lines being most common--and the text is divided into stanzas, with the music repeated for each stanza. Site descriptions begin with bracketed keywords including type of content (midi, scores, lyrics, links, indexes, hymnology); Hymnal names; styles (shape notes); denomination or nation (Baptist, Wesleyan, Lutheran, Canada, England, etc.) [feedback on the keywords--value or implementation--is welcome!]
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The Cyber Hymnal - Includes over 8500 lyrics and midi; scores; hymnology; links; software; "Autoplay".
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Hymn Gems - Page images of 1921 book by Robert Elmer Smith: topically arranged stanzas from hymns.
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Center for Church Music - Includes several dozen hymns: text, MIDI and sheet music, with notes; schedule of radio programs featuring singing.
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Hymns of the Christian Church - [40 lyrics] From the Harvard Classics Library.
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HymnSite - [500 lyrics; 300 midi; links; indexes; interaction: mailing list] public domain material from "United Methodist Hymnal, 1989", "The Standard Psalm Tune Book" (Henry E. Dibdin, 1851), and Isaac Watts' metrical psalter.
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Split Infinity Music - [100 lyrics; 50 midi; inc. 10 carols] Song planning software; Song database program with automatic chord transposition; Commercial midi file creation and arrangement service.
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The Singing School at Abilene Christian University - Offers training in Songwriting, Singing, and Public Worship Leadership.
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The Calvin Hymnary Project - An index with over 10000 entries focused on classic hymns, recent hymnals in the Reformed tradition, and worship music; with flexible browsing and searching; incorporates thousands of texts, media files, and background information.
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Oremus Hymnal - [1800+ lyrics; 900+ MIDIs; Episcopal/Anglican] Texts and tunes from 21 Anglican hymnals worldwide; hymn, tune, hymnal, liturgical, and lectionary indexes.
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