[Perform-Talk] Resources for Electronic of Hymnals

[Michelle Clark]

Hi Chris,

On occasion, I just put the name in the search box. Among other things about
the song, the lyrics are there as well.

Michelle

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Subject: [Perform-Talk] 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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