[Perform-Talk] Resources for Electronic of Hymnals

[Julie McGinnity]

Yes, this is something I deal with as well!

It doesn't take very long for someone to type up the lyrics for hymns
and other songs.  Even if your choir director doesn't have time,
another member of the choir who is reliable might help.
If your church uses an online platform at all to download and print
their music.  I'm thinking here of Planning Center or Easy Worship I
think it's called.  You can also get the words from there, and you
should be able to log onto those sites yourself and get them.  There
are lyrics to every song you can imagine online.  Even the most
contemporary songs are available online.  A site like AZ Lyrics or
similar might be able to help if you can get the list of hymns ahead
of time.

Working with another church member to Braille them up yourself is a
great suggestion too.  I knew a lady who paid a reader to come and
read her the notes to her part as well as the words.  That way she
could read the music and have the words to every song they sang in
choir.  I know you, and your Braille skills are quite good.  This
wouldn't take long for you, and you could probably find someone
willing to volunteer their time or trade it for some other service you
can do if you can't pay.

I only wish there were more hymnals with the actual music in them!  I
hope you find an arrangement that works for you.

Julie
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On 3/27/18, Jessica Raichle via Perform-talk <perform-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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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-- 
Julie A. McGinnity
President, National Federation of the Blind Performing Arts Division,
Second Vice President, National Federation of the Blind of Missouri
"For we walk by faith, not by sight"
2 Cor. 7