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Here you will find downloadable scores, a zip file of audio files (MIDI) and a zip file of all source files (in ABC Plus format). Note that a topical index is included in the pdf.

Scores as a single pdf (2014.06) (8MB)

Big, single ABC (source) file (2014.06) (2MB)

All Scores as GIF files, zipped (2014.06) (23MB)

All MIDI files as a zip (2014.06) (336kB)

All ABC (source) files as a zip (2014.06) (1MB)

Christmas Edition 2013 (1.7M)

MP3s for Christmas Edition (70MB)

Lent/Easter Edition 2011 (1.1MB)

Visitation Edition 2011 (1.1MB)

2-up duplex printing Visitation Edition 2011 (1.1MB) (This should be printed on legal sized paper short-side duplex, stapled, folded, then sheared)

MP3s for Visitation Edition (58MB) (put these on a cell phone or MP3 player with a little speaker when you visit the sick)

Choral and Instrumental Edition 2013 (438kB)

Sword Modules (2014.06):

Raw ZIP Module (24MB)

ThML source (2MB)

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Welcome to the Open Hymnal Project, an effort to create a freely distributable, downloadable database of Christian hymns, spiritual songs, and prelude/postlude music. I am doing my best to create a final product that is "Hymnal-quality", and could feasibly be used as the basis for a printed church hymnal. This music is to be distributed as complete scores (words and music), using all accompaniment parts, in formats that are easily accessible on most computer OS's and which can be freely modified by anyone.

"Freely you received, so freely give." - Matthew 10:8 (WEB)

27 Oct 2025 Added a new hymn From All Thy Saints in Warfare.

25 Oct 2025 Added a new (very short) hymn Lord, Be Thy Word My Rule by Christopher Wordsworth. This would be a nice morning prayer.

23 Oct 2025 Added an often-requested new hymn Great Is Thy Faithfulness. This hymn had been in copyright a decade ago but is now in the public domain.

21 Oct 2025 Added a new hymn Now Sin, With Reign Unbroken by Thomas Kingo. Expect to see a number of hymns being entered from my three favorite hymnwriters: Paul Gerhardt, Thomas Kingo, and Christopher Wordsworth. Particularly with Kingo, a number of translations that had been in copyright a decade ago are now in the public domain, this one included.

15 Oct 2025 Added a new hymn from a modern hymnwriter, Randall Medcalf. I Trust in the Blood of Calvary.

09 Oct 2025 After a long absence, I am restarting activity on the Open Hymnal Project. Numerous small changes have been made behind the scenes already. One which the user will see are the Trinitarian verse markers (Δ). In some church bodies there is a tradition to stand when the final verse of a hymn reflects all three persons of the Trinity. The markers are already to be found in individual pdfs, but it will be a little while before another fully compiled hymnal will be ready.

Additionally, I have added a new hymn, All People that on Earth Do Dwell. Numerous more hymns are in the works and will be added in the near future.

27 Jun 2019 Changed email.

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Last modified: 27 Oct 2025