[MusicTlk] Resources for Electronic of Hymnals

[Linda Mentink]

Hi Chris,

You might try Optasia Ministries. It's sad that NLS doesn't have 
that hymnal up on their BARD site! I have lots of hymnals in BRF, 
but not that one!

Blessings,

Linda

 ----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Nusbaum via MusicTlk <musictlk at nfbnet.org
To: musictlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:30:14 -0400
Subject: [MusicTlk] Resources for Electronic of Hymnals

Good Morning Fellow Musicians:

For many years I have struggled with accessing lyrics for hymns 
in order to sing them in church, whether in the choir or in the 
congregation. When I sing in the choir at my home church, I've 
often asked our director to email me the lyrics, assuming that 
she has time to do so. More recently, I discovered a wonderful 
Web site called hymnary.org which seems to have hymnals for most 
if not all Christian denominations. The problem is that some 
hymns, mostly those which were written between about 1940 and the 
present day, are still copyright-protected, which means that 
Hymnary is not allowed to publish them. So, if Mary picks one of 
those hymns, I'm stuck.

I'm an Episcopalian, and we use the 1982 Hymnal (the most recent 
hymnal published by the Church). It appears that NLS has a copy, 
but it's only available in hardcopy Braille, and I don't want to 
carry around multiple volumes of a book just to use 4 or 5 songs 
which might be found in 3 or 4 volumes. Besides, constantly 
flipping through the book to find the song I need would likely 
take away from the worship experience. Does anyone know of any 
resources for finding electronic copies of hymnals where I might 
look for ours?

Thanks,

Chris Nusbaum
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