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Hymnary.org: a comprehensive index of hymns and hymnals

Welcome to Hymnary.org

Hymnary.org now contains the entire Dictionary of North American Hymnology, thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities! That makes Hymnary.org the only only near-comprehensive index of hymnals published in North America.

Hymnary.org currently contains 5,037 hymnals and collections, entries on 1,035,884 texts and 36,873 tunes, bibliographical information from sources such as Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology and hymnal handbooks, full scores of many hymns, and 6,334 media files.

Name that tune. Can't identify a remembered hymn melody? Try our Melodic search.

Got a question about a hymn? Try our Forums.

Want to help out? Much of the work of adding, proofing, and editing the data is done by volunteers. For more information, see our wiki pages.

What's New at Hymnary.org

Revised search engine

Fri, 2010-09-03 10:45 — hplantin

Peter Plantinga built a revised search engine this past summer that allows certain kinds of searches that were previously not possible, such as searching for "Amazing Grace" in the key of F. It also introduces a "hymns" tab for hymn instances as published in particular hymnals. It's available for testing at beta.hymnary.org.

Try it out and add your feedback here!

Two opportunities for hymn writers: Psalm settings

Wed, 2010-09-01 16:16 — Greg Scheer

CICW PSALTER
In 2012 the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship will publish a Psalter with Faith Alive Christian Resources. It will feature multiple settings of all 150 Psalms. They have made available a "wish list" of Psalm settings needed to fill out the publication. View it here.

CHURCH OF THE SERVANT 2010 NEW PSALM CONTEST
In an effort to encourage Psalm-singing, Church of the Servant invites congregational songwriters to submit a Psalm-based song to its 2010 New Psalm Contest. The winner will

Worshiping Church page images

Fri, 2010-06-04 11:05 — njd7

The Worshiping Church now has page scans for all non-copyrighted hymns. Just click on any hymn with the icon, or click the Read this hymnal link on the hymnal page!

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