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Music/Liturgy

Portals

• Liturgica.com - liturgical worship and music from Judaism to Christianity

Christianity

Portals

• Liturgical Studies and Liturgical Music - good listing of sites including links to information on Saints

Hymns/Chants

• Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology - over 9,000 works donated by Dr. Louis F. Benson to Princeton Seminary - over half of the collection is available digitally
• Cantus Database - index of Latin ecclesiastical chants - with links to full text. Fully searchable by keyword, textual incipit, saint's name, liturgical occasion and chant ID number
• Common Worship texts - Church of England liturgical resouces
• Deutsches Liturgisches Institut - Search their library for listings of works (books and journal articles) on liturgy including Jewish liturgy
• Gregorian Chant Home page
• Hungarian Chant Database
• Hymn Tune Index - index to English-language hymns printed before 1820.
• Hymnary.org - " is a comprehensive index of 5,250 hymnals and 1,111,704 published hymns, with scores, media, and information from sources such as Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology, hymnal handbooks, and experts in the field. "
• The John and Ruby Lomax 1939 Southern States Recording Trip - ethnographic field collection from the Library of Congress' American Folklife Center - includes a few religious dramas ad over 150 spirituals etc.
• Monastic Topics: Liturgy - see sections "Music Resources" and :Western Music Texts"
• Name that Hymn - provides lyrics, sheet music and audio for classic Christian hymns
• Worship.ca: The Worship Website of the ELCTC - Resources section provides links to liturgy and music sites

Hinduism

• Bhakti Music

Judaism

Portals

• Jewish Music WebCenter - links to online music, biographies of people in music, Jewish women's contributions to music and listing of Libraries and Archives with Jewish Music Collections

Recordings/Scores

• Bella and Harry Wexner Libraries of Sound and Song (The National Library of Israel) - listing of music holdings of the National Library and includes a number of digital clips.
• Chazzanut Online - information on cantors as well as cantorial music scores.
• Cantorial Manuscripts Yeshiva University - digitized scores for early 20th century includes liturgical music as well as other compositions
• Harry Orvomaa Collection of Jewish Records (Suomen Äänitearkisto, Finland)
• Judaica Sound Archives ( Florida Atlantic University Libraries )- "major center for the collection, preservation and digitization of Judaica audio recordings" - excellent resource for listening to Jewish music
• The Library of Congress National Jukebox - Yiddish music
• Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive - index to this collection over 25,000 Yiddish and other Jewish songs - can listen to sample recordings
• Milkin Archive of Jewish Music - information about composers, cantors, conductors, ensembles, instrumentalists and singers as well as sample music and videos of performers
• Zemerl: The Interactive Database of Jewish Song - lyrics and English translation

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