Hinos e Cânticos: com música

Among Brazilian hymnals, Hinos e Cânticos was the second to be published. In 1876, while in England, Richard Holden compiled and released the first edition of the hymnal, titled Hinos e Cânticos Espirituais. It was a 48-page booklet consisting of two sections: the first with 38 hymns, and the second with 8 spiritual songs. In 1879, the second edition was released, containing 72 hymns and 14 spiritual songs, nearly double the amount of the first. Twelve years after Holden's death, Stuart Edmund McNair and George Howes took over his mission and published the third edition in 1898, which included 205 hymns divided into three sections: Evangelization, Christian Experience, and Worship. In 1933, McNair founded the Casa Editora Evangélica in Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro, where the first edition of Hinos e Cânticos com Música was printed in 1939. Many subsequent editions followed, always carefully reviewed and corrected by Holden’s successors—talented compilers and composers like William Anglin, José Ilídio Freire, Albert Clayton, Albert Henry Storrie, Ricardo David Jones, James Dickie Crawford, and Luiz Soares, among others. In 1976, the editorial and publishing committee founded the Associação Cristã Editora in Brazil, which took over the rights to Hinos e Cânticos for better legal protection.