Music: Worship
This guide will assist you in doing research in Music.
Available in the Library
These books, plus many more, can all be found in the Reference section of our library. Search the Library Online Catalog to find additional resources.
Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds by Heidi Campbell
Call Number:
BL 638 .D54 2013
Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works by James K. A. Smith
Call Number:
BV 15 .S485 2013
Church/Sacred Music
These websites will be useful to you when doing research for Church/Worship music:
- HymnaryThis website is an online hymn and worship music database for worship leaders, hymnologists, and amateur hymn lovers alike. You can search or browse hymns by title, tune, meter, key, scripture reference, and more.
- John Wesley’s Poetry and Hymn CollectionsThis online collection provides the full text of all of John Wesley’s edited volumes of poetry and hymns, including a manuscript collection done during his student years at Oxford.
- Hymns and Hymnology: Christian Classics Ethereal LibraryThis website has full-text hymnals available online. They just include the lyrics, not the music.
- Hymn Tune IndexThis website is a comprehensive census of tunes associated with English-language hymns found in sources printed in or before the year 1820.
- Worship TogetherThis website is an online resource and community for worship leaders. Membership is free, just sign up to access sheet music, articles, videos and more.
- Worship Leader MagazineWorship Leader is a resource for the curators of worship—pastors, worship leaders, musicians, vocalists, sound and visual techs, technology stewards, artists—always pointing them toward the one true worship leader, Jesus Christ, through theological, multimedia, and educational tools.
- The Hymn Society in the United States and CanadaThe Hymn Society’s website includes links to the full-texts of The hymn and The Papers of the Hymn Society.
- Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Resource LibraryTheir resource library contains articles, outlines, guides, slideshows, audio, and video to equip and enrich your worship.