ABOUT

The venerable Hymn Tune Index (HTI) has been developed over more than 40 years by Nicholas Temperley. Its initial aim was provide an index of all hymns with English-lnaguage lyrics up to the year 1900. At present the online part goes through 1820. Listing for the remainder of the nineteenth century are in progress. A full history is available here. Hymn tunes have their own conventions of indexing, among which the metrical scansion of the verse(s) is prominent. Identical profiles are grouped together, facilitating a search by this rubric. 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. The online search capabilities have been developed at the University of Illinois since then.

RDF

data.open.ac.uk

TYPE

Catalogue

HOMEPAGE

visit the homepage of the project

EXTENT

<100000 items

LICENSE

Open Access

SUBJECT

Metadata

TASKS

purposes or situations wherein to reuse the resource:

music history

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musicology

SCOPE

items are gathered by

Genre

AUDIENCE

researchers

MUSIC FEATURES

for each item is described:

Descriptive Metadata

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Lyrics

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Melody

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Rhythm

FEATURES AND SERVICES

the resource provides:

Browsing

,

Human Consumption

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Interoperable format

,

Query Interface

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Machine readable symbolic notation