LSB Resources: Additional Indexes
For a number of years I’ve had lofty goals to catalog my music library — not just the books, but also the individual pieces within the book, associated hymn tunes, composers, when I used a piece, etc. While I haven’t made much progress on the cataloging, awhile back I did create the underlying structure that would link everything back to Lutheran Service Book and the associated hymn tunes. Through that project I had the data to create several indexes that had more detail than those provided in the back of the LSB editions — primarily around the hymn tunes used in LSB.
All of the information in these indexes is already in LSB — these indexes will just minimize some page flipping going back and forth to cross reference hymn numbers. They answer two primary questions: What tune does a hymn use? What hymns use this tune? Who knows, some of you might find these useful. If you do, I’d be interested to know – please leave a comment.
- LSB Hymn Names, Number, and Tune sorted by Hymn Name
- LSB Hymn Names, Number, and Tune sorted by Hymn Number
- LSB Hymn Names, Number, and Tune sorted by Hymn Tune
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Great idea! The list sorted by hymn tune is the one I would use the most. I use the hymn tunes and the list of suggested hymns for Sundays to help pick out my preludes,offertories and postludes and those are generally found by hymn tune….very handy-dandy!
Thanks Shauna. I hope you find the list useful. For the parish musician, especially an organist or pianist, hymn tunes are often the bedrock from which many other things flow — hymn playing, introduction/intonations, and instrumental music. It’s definitely handy to be familiar with the names of the tunes in the hymnal.
What a great resource! I am so thankful to have use of your good work and to let you know how much and how often your blog is a blessing to me — especially a couple of the Sacred Music links which I had not seen… truly one of the great high points of my week is to listen to these various programs which present the music of the church reflective of the liturgical calendar… thanks again!!
Thank you Pastor Peters for your kind words. It’s a joy and privilege to work on this blog and be a “Lutheran Kantor”. Paul Westermeyer said, “it is one of the most rewarding things you will ever do” (referencing the Kantor part, not necessarily the blogging part).
I must say that I look forward to your “meanderings” and where you’ll go next.
Thanks so much for sharing the work you have done. I, too, recently indexed all of my organ music by hymn tune name. I included one common hymn title, the books in which music is to be found, and the use for the music (whether harmonization, improvisation, etc.) This certainly has saved time flipping through books looking for a particular piece. I think I will add hymn numbers from LSB now that I’ve read this blog. Thanks again for the encouragement you give!
Jackie — I hope you find the lists useful. An indexed list of music sure makes things easier to find. A few years ago when LSB was released, CPH issued a “catalog” called Music Resources for Lutheran Service Book (which is still available). This had many of the tune names from LSB along with organ books from the CPH catalog that had that tune. If your music library has a lot of CPH products, then this could be valuable.
I too will find these lists useful… I currently cannot use them because of my current position in a Presbyterian church, but once I finish school I’ll be running, not walking, to the best LCMS church I can find. I have archived your lists in anticipation of that joyous day.