Hymns and Hymnwriting

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(Index of Hymnology and Hymnography Texts)

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Project Gutenberg, the largest collection of public-domain e-texts on the net, includes these books of hymnological interest:

• Adams, John Greenleaf (ed.), Hymns for Christian Devotion (Unitarian, U.S., mid-nineteenth-century)
• Brown and Butterworth, The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
• Lorenz, E. S. (ed.), Otterbein Hymnal (1906, Church of the Brethren, U.S.)
• Luther, Martin: The Hymns of Martin Luther Set to their original melodies; with an English version
• Prudentius Aurelius, Cathemerinon, Latin hymns translated by R. Martin Pope.
• Watts, Isaac, Divine Songs
• Watts, Isaac, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
• Watts, Isaac, The Psalms of David Imitated ...

Project Gutenberg includes whatever texts were of special interest to the founders, or have been contributed by volunteers, so its collection is distinctly eclectic. Hymnody is under-represented, but that can be changed and is changing. Distributed Proofreaders and Distributed Proofreaders: Europe provide most e-texts to Project Gutenberg. Their work is also delineated by the nature of voluntary donations of scanned page images to proofread. But their open processes and tools make them ideal places to help creating e-texts (or find help creating e-texts). The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is among the organizations feeding scanned books to Distributed Proofreaders.

These books are in the Distributed Proofreading pipelines (listed by probable order of publication):

• Standard Oratorios (music criticism)
• Haendel (biography)
• English Hymnal (Anglican, U.K.)
• Dictionary of Hymnology (John Julian, ed.)