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Hymnal References
These are coloured sea green with an abbreviation followed by hymn number.
Note that text and music may differ from what appears on this site!
Australian hymnals and collections:
- CWB1: Catholic Worship Book (1st ed.), published 1985. Out of print.
- CWB2: Catholic Worship Book (2nd ed.), published 2016,
available from Morning Star Publishing;
In my experience, the soft-cover edition full music edition does a much better job of staying flat.
- GA: Gather Australia, published 1995. Out of print.
- NLP: New Living Parish Hymn Book, published 1987. Out of print.
- YG: Year of Grace, available from Willow Publishing;
American hymnals and collections:
- J3: JourneySongs, 3rd ed., published 2012,
available from OCP;
- W4: Worship, 4th ed., published 2011,
available from GIA Publications, Inc.;
- WCTM: We Contemplate the Mystery; the Michael Joncas Hymnary: Lent and Triduum, published 2015.
available from OCP;
- WOBB: Within Our Hearts Be Born; the Michael Joncas Hymnary: Advent and Christmas, published 2013.
available from OCP.
Abbreviations
- sco (score): keyboard (SATB) accompaniment with chords matching keyboard harmonies, and lyrics (pdf);
- kbd (keyboard): keyboard (SATB) accompaniment with lyrics (no chords) (pdf);
- lds (lead sheet): melody + chords + vocals (pdf);
- ctr (cantor): melody + lyrics (pdf);
- con (congregation): melody + lyrics, for use in parish hymn sheets or bulletins (png);
- acc (accompaniment): keyboard (SATB) accompaniment without lyrics (pdf);
- cds (chords): melody + lyrics with each stanza in a different colour - could be printed out (pdf);
- pew: melody, for use in parish hymn sheet or bulletins (png);
- ppt (PowerPoint): slides melody + lyrics for use in projection (warning: hasn't been tested in actual use!) (pptx);
- org (pipe organ): pipe organ recording from SmallChurchMusic.com edited to match key and number of verses (mp3);
- pno (piano): computer generated piano and violin (mp3);
- vid (video): YouTube video generated from this this with melody-line lyrics (mp3).
- YT (YouTube): YouTube video produced elsewhere. These will not necessarily have the same lyrics as shown here.
- Hope: HopePublishing.com (hymn publisher)
- OCP: OCP.org (hymn publisher)
- Wlw: WillowPublishing.com.au (hymn publisher)