[Perform-Talk] Resources for Electronic of Hymnals

[Jessica Raichle]

I LOVE hymnary.org!  They do have some words to more recent hymns, but
doing a general search on Bing or Google or something like that for
more recent hymns may help, too.
Jessica

On 3/26/18, Amy Sabo via Perform-talk <perform-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> hello chris,
>
> well, as to your question I do on this but, why not post your
> messagelso to the faith-talk list on nfbnet as well to since this is a
> religious matter besides a one for the performing arts list too! i'm
> sure that someone in that league with dealing with your religion can
> assist you in that matter.  I hope this information is available to
> you too!  take care and good luck!
>
>
>
> hugs,
> amy
>
> On 3/26/18, Chris Nusbaum via Perform-talk <perform-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 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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