Hymn Resources on the Internet

Hymn Texts

Christian Classics Ethereal Library: Hymns and Hymnology by Title
<http://www.ccel.org/index/hymn.html>

Full text of numerous hymnals in several formats, including Adobe Acrobat PDF, Microsoft Word, Palm eBook (pdb), Plain text (UTF-8), Theological Markup Language (XML), and html. Some formats require the creation of a user account to access. A sampling of titles includes:

• Hymnal of The Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA, 1916
• John Newton, Olney Hymns
• William Walker, Southern Harmony, 1853
• Isaac Watts, The Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts
• John Wesley, A Collection of Hymns, 1876
• Catherine Winkworth, Chorale Book for England

The Cyber Hymnal
<http://www.hymntime.com/tch/>

Texts of "over 6,300 Christian hymns and Gospel songs from many denominations." Hymns can be located by title, author or composer, and a few subject terms. Also includes some background information on hymn texts, hymn tunes, and hymn writers. Some hymns have a link to a MIDI version of the hymn.

A Collection of Hymns
<http://www.mun.ca/rels/hrollmann/meth/texts/wesley/hymns.txt>

A plain text version of John Wesley's A Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists, 1889.

Coptic Orthodox Church Hymns
<http://www.suscopts.org/deacons/hymns/hymns.html>

Texts in English and [some non-Roman alphabet, Coptic?, Arabic?] of hymns specific to this tradition. Also includes some audio files.

The Hymnary
<http://www.hymnary.org/>

Another project of the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, "the Hymnary is a new kind of hymn website. It combines the best features of popular sites like the Cyber Hymnal and academic projects like The Hymn Tune Index and rolls them all into one robust database." It "currently contains 42 hymnals, index entries on 12,235 texts (6,374 with full text) and 11,541 tunes, biographical information from sources such as the Psalter Hymnal Handbook and Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology, full scores of many public domain hymns, and 8,596 media files."

Hymns and Carols of Christmas
<http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/>

Texts, as well as background information, of more than 2,700 hymns and carols relating to Christmas. Despite the similarity in names, the creator of this site is not related to the creator of Hymn Resources on the Internet

LDS Church Music: Hymns
<http://www.lds.org/cm/display/0,17631,4650-1,00.html>

Hymn text (more than 400) and videos (WMA format) with recorded music and video of ASL signing of the text. Also included are more than 370 images of hymns (text and music) with numerous indexes, including Title and First Line, Authors and Composers, Hymn Numbers, Meters, Scriptures, Titles, Tunes and Meters, Topics, Tune Names.

Lutheran Hymns
<http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/wittenberg-hymnals.html>

Texts of Lutheran hymns (39 English, 28 German, 1 Latin). Provided as part of Project Wittenberg.

The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941
<http://www.ctsfw.edu/etext/hymnals/tlh/>

Texts of the public-domain hymns from this hymnal hosted by Project Wittenberg. This appears to be related in some way to The Lutheran Hymnal MIDI Project

Metre, Metrical Psalters and Church Music
<http://www.cgmusic.com/library/index.htm>

Texts (some complete) of several early metrical psalters, including:

• Sternhold and Hopkins Psalter
• The Scottish Psalter of 1635
• The Bay Psalm Book
• The Scottish Metrical Psalter (1650)
• Tate and Brady's A New Version of the Psalms of David in Metre
• Isaac Watts' Psalms "Imitated in the Language of the New Testament"
• The Psalter of the United Presbyterian Church, 1887

Olney Hymns by William Cowper
<http://theotherpages.org/poems/olney.html>

From Poets' Corner, texts of 68 hymns by Cowper.

Oremus Hymnal
<http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/>

"This online hymnal contains texts and MIDI files of tunes used in much of the English-speaking world, with particular emphasis on the Anglican tradition. Currently, fifty-two Anglican hymnals from the past 140 years have been indexed. These 52 hymnals contain nearly seven thousand distinct texts and over eighteen thousand text/tune combinations." Currently being migrated to:

Oremus Hymnal Wiki
<http://hymnal.oremus.org/>

"This is the third major revision of the Oremus Hymnal, started by Steve Benner in 1998."

The Sacred Harp Online Index
<http://fasola.org/index/0Index.html>

Texts of all 554 songs in The Sacred Harp, 1991 Edition, indexed by title, page number, first line, composer, poet, or meter. Hosted by the Fasola Home Page.

Split Infinity Music hymnal archive
<http://www.simusic.com/worship/hymns/>

"Over two thousand public domain hymns with midi files."

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