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The Hymn Tune Index allows you to search directly for a tune by the tune's number, name, or incipit (opening notes). Tunes full form is presented in numerical music code (but without rhythm indications), often with comments including the composer’s name (if known).
The Hymn Tune Index. All hymns printed anywhere in the world with English-language texts up to 1820, and their publication history up to that date. The Hymn Tune Index project began in the 1970s at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Hymnary.org: A comprehensive index of over 1 million hymn texts, hymn tunes, and hymnals, with information on authors and composers, lyrics and scores of many hymns, and various media files. Hymnary.org also incorporates the Dictionary of North American Hymnology, an extensive collection of hymnals published before 1978.
The Hymn Tune Index is defined as a comprehensive census of tunes associated with English-language hymns found in sources printed in or before the year 1820. In this section the key words of that definition will be explained in detail.
These hymn tunes are indexed by tune name, author and source, (poetic) meter, incipit, and by hymnal number in some hymnals. Tune Name Index. A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · X · Y · Z. The Name index lists names by which the tune has commonly been known.
Hymns can be search by name and by its HTI number; by title; by lyrics; by the name of a compiler; and by composer. Temperley's work has produced the four-volume printed Hymn Tune Index published by Oxford University Press (1998); revisions to it can be found here.
18 mar 2020 · The hymn tune index : a census of English-language hymn tunes in printed sources from 1535 to 1820 : Temperley, Nicholas : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
