Item Detail
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Temperley, Nicholas
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Manns, Charles G.
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The hymn tune index : a census of English-language hymn tunes in printed sources from 1535 to 1820
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Book
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4 vols.
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Oxford; New York, N.Y.
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1998
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Clarendon Press
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4 v. ; 29 cm.
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English
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193111500
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Hymn tunes--Indexes.
Hymns, English--Bibliography.
Hymns, English--Indexes. -
Hymns; Hymn Tunes; Printed Music
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ML 128 .H8 T46 1998
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Temperley, Nicholas. The Hymn Tune Index: A Census of English-Language Hymn Tunes in Printed Sources from 1535 to 1820. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
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To help identify British and American hymn tunes based on their composer, use, place of origin, or simply the melodic contour of the tune itself. These volumes would be quite useful for scholarly research on hymn tunes.
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Covers only the music of the hymn tunes, not the text. Only includes printed sources in English, published anywhere in the world up until 1820. Other languages and non-printed sources are excluded. Includes both hymn tunes and metrical psalm tunes.
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Divided into four volumes. Volume 1 includes an introduction to the index, a description of the tables and abbreviations, an overview of the state of research on hymn tunes, a history of the hymn tune, details as to the scope of the index, a bibliography of relevant sources, and listing of the codes used in the index with their full citations. Volume 2 contains three separate indexes of the hymns tunes. The first is organized by musical incipit, a simplified solfege of the hymn tune, and listed numerically according to the incipit. The second is organized alphabetically by the name of the tune. The third is organized alphabetically by the composer’s last name. Volumes 3 and 4 contain the details of each hymn tune, organized by tune number based on the musical incipit. Each entry is listed in a specific table format, which is described inside the front cover of volumes 3 and 4. The table includes information such as the tune number, the meter, the key, the history of the tune’s use, the sources of the tune, and years of publication. Volume 3 contains tunes 1-4,999, and volume 4 contains tunes 5,000-17,424. The four volumes function as a set; codes in one volume are often described in a different volume, and details listed for a particular entry many times refer back to a table in a separate volume.
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Very extensive, with several different ways to identify a particular hymn tune. All the information is clearly coded and efficiently organized, so that a researcher, once familiar with the format, can quickly locate key details about each tune.
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Only covers tunes in English, which is essentially an issue of coverage.
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Wicklund, Nancy. The Hymn 51 (January 2000): 53-54. -
BYU Mus Ref
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