External Links
Please find below a list of external links to other organisations where you can find more about hymns. Please note, we are not responsible for the content of these external links.
ArtServe
A movement of people discovering and reflecting God’s creative gifts, encompassing music, dance and drama, visual arts and creative writing
Website:
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Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology
An essential reference resource for scholars of global hymnody, with information on the hymns of many countries and languages, historical and contemporary.
Website:
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Access to the Dictionary is part of membership of the Society. Once logged in using the Member Login page please go here to see Dictionary login details.
Cathedral Music Trust...
The Trust aims to support excellence, broaden participation and increase the long-term sustainability of the cathedral music sector.
Cathedral Music Trust Website:
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Center for Congregational Song
Resource and outreach arm of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada (HSUSC)
Website:
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Christian Congregational Music Conference
An annual conference bringing together world-class scholars and practitioners to further the understanding and practice of congregational music-making
Website:
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Cymdeithas Emynau Cymru
Welsh Hymn Society; their website is all in Welsh apart from a small explanatory note in English with an e-mail link
Website:
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HSUSC
The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, whose aim is to encourage, promote, and enliven congregational singing
Joint membership with HSUSC is available to our members.
Website:
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Hymnology Archive
An extensive and meticulous searchable database of texts and tunes often showing the autograph or first published version in facsimile, with background information. Contains searchable indexes by tune name, author, text and thematically by church year and scripture passage.
Website:
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IMSLP
A large database of scanned original collections of all kinds of music, and includes nearly 4,000 hymn books and individual hymn scores. Its database allows searching by title, or person, and has detailed edition information and free downloads. Extensive coverage of UK and American hymnody, and some European sources.
Website:
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IAH
The International Society for Hymnological Studies (IAH) is a network for the encouragement of and research into congregational singing in theory and practice. It is international, interconfessional, and interdisciplinary. The academic investigations of the IAH focus on hymns and hymnals and on everything related to them in both theory and practice. The various aspects of hymn and hymnal research occupy researchers, teachers, and practitioners from a wide range of academic disciplines, including church music, theology, literature, linguistics, musicology, history, bibliography, folklore, sociology, and psychology. It is also, in effect, the national society for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Website:
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Jubilate / SHWF
A project of the Song & Hymn Writers Foundation which exists to exercise, model and encourage excellence in the writing of new songs and hymns for worship
Website:
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Pratt Green Trust
Furthering the cause of hymnody through public education, prizes, scholarships, bursaries, grants and donations to church musicians and charities pursuing the same aims
Website:
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Resound Worship
Resound Worship is a project of the Song & Hymn Writers Foundation - see Jubilate / SHWF
Website:
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RSCM
Royal School of Church Music: exists to enable the flourishing of church music, encouraging and resourcing churches and musicians. Resources include the Colles Library, a large reference collection of church music and books about it
Website:
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Singing the Faith plus
A centre of resource and advice for the Methodist Church, supporting that church’s calling to offer meaningful, creative and inclusive worship
Website:
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Transforming Worship (formerly Praxis)
...was formed in 1990, and encouraged by the Liturgical Commission of the Church of England, the Alcuin Club, and the Group for the Renewal of Worship.
Website:
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West Gallery Music Association
A group whose aims are to study, preserve, perform, teach and enjoy the sacred and secular music and song of west gallery and allied traditions
Website:
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Wild Goose Resource Group (Iona Community)
A project of the international, ecumenical Iona Community to encourage, enable and equip the shaping and creation of new forms of worship
Website:
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