Directory of Hymnals Resources

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This category is for websites or pages devoted to specific shape-note hymnals. These books first appeared in the early 19th century as an aid to teaching

Resources in This Category

• Northern Harmony, 1993

  http://northernharmony.pair.com/
  [hymnals; recordings] (commercial content) Information about a chorus, and an expanded reprint of an early-19th-century hymnal.

• Sacred Harp, 1991 (Online Index)

  http://fasola.org/index/0Index.html
  [indexes; hymnals] New edition of an early-19th-century American hymnal.

• Shenandoah Harmony

  http://www.shenandoahharmony.com/
  Official site for a new four-shape tunebook: includes sample scores and recordings, hymn sources, singings, order information.

• Songs of Zion : Being a small collection of tunes, principally original; with appropriate lines, adapted to divine worship

  http://search.lib.virginia.edu/catalog/uva-lib:2207875/
  The sole known surviving copy of an 1821 tunebook: page scans at the University of Virginia.

 

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