Research Guides
Music
Massive sheet music store and music listening library. Try out the listening lab to hear arrangements and add to your playlist “jukebox”. Choose arrangements for your school choir, band, and orchestra, or find the perfect cantata for your church choir.
Musescore is a free download for creating your own sheet music. Music notation software.
“A comprehensive index of hymns and hymnals.” Listen to hymns played on a piano, read hymn lyrics, learn about the author, find a bulletin blurb for the hymn, find worship notes for the song leader, find out what hymnals published the hymn, print sheet music, find hymn arrangement books with that hymn for purchase. The powerful search feature allows you to browse hymns by title, meter, key, scripture reference, or even by the tune of the song! FlexPresent Songs allows you to listen to the tune of 659 hymns as you view the music and words. Read about the composers, or purchase FlexScores that allow you to manipulate the music to exactly what you need including the ability to transpose it, make it larger print, or remove verses. Don’t have a piano player at your church? Click on My.Hymnary.org to go to a site where you can choose hymns to play for your congregational singing. Click on “Exploration Tools” under the “Discover” tab and find hymnology journal articles.
archive.org/details/jstor_ejc?query=music&sin=&sort=-week&page=3
JSTOR music articles on archive.org. A selection of journal materials published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere.