Melodious Accord Hymnal

This hymnal is for the use of choirs and adventurous congregations who wish to explore both new poems and music and those drawn from our American heritage. This collection contains rounds, responses, spirituals, folk-songs, prayers and psalms, and suggestions that can help you to successfully introduce this marvelous music to your choir or congregation in a way that will uphold each song's integrity and will bring the music and texts alive in the hearts of all who sing them. Also included are a multitude of indices organized in categories like historical, geographical, stylistic, movement and mood, tempo, tune name, poetic meter, and of course first-line in alphabetical order. This collection contains 150 songs, mostly in four-part harmony. (Publisher information)