List of English-language hymnals by denomination

Hymnals, also called hymnbooks (or hymn books) and occasionally hymnaries, are books of hymns sung by religious congregations. The following is a list of English-language hymnals by denomination.

Denominational Hymnals

Anabaptist

See also Mennonite.

• Ausbund (1564)
• The Christian Hymnary (1972)
• Zion's Praises (1987)

Anglican

• Anglican Church of Canada
  • Book of Common Praise (1938)
  • The Hymn Book (1971), produced jointly with United Church of Canada
  • Common Praise (1998)
• The Church in the Province of the West Indies
  • The CPWI Hymnal (2011) ^[1]
• Anglican Church of Australia
  • Australian Hymn Book (1977)
  • Together in Song: Australian Hymn Book II (1999)
• Episcopal Church in the United States of America
  • The Hymnal 1982
  • The Hymnal 1940
  • The Hymnal 1916
  • The Church Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged (U.S.), 1892
  • Lift Every Voice and Sing I & II
  • Wonder Love and Praise
  • Voices Found
  • My Heart Sings Out
• Reformed Episcopal Church (U.S.A.)
  • The Book of Common Praise: Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer (1943)
• Church of England
  The Church of England has no official hymnals. But various hymnals have been produced with C. of E. usage much in mind.
  • Lyra Davidica (1708)
  • Common Praise (2000)
  • The New English Hymnal (1986) Supplemented by New English Praise (2006)
  • Anglican Hymn Book (1965)
  • The English Hymnal (1906, 1933)
  • Hymns Ancient and Modern (numerous editions, 1861–2013)
• Church of Ireland
  • Church Hymnal (2000, fifth edition)
• The Episcopal Church in the Philippines
  • The EPC Trial Hymnal
• The Church of the Province of South East Asia
  • The Amoy Hymnal
• The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia / Te Hahi Mihinare ki Aotearoa ki Niu Tireni, ki Nga Moutere o Te Moana Nui a Kiwa
  Has no official hymnals. But various books produced by the New Zealand Hymnbook Trust are suitable NZ Anglican usage.

Assemblies of God

• Assembly Songs (1948)
• Redemption Hymnal (1951)
• Melodies of Praise (1957)
• Hymns of Glorious Praise (1969)
• Sing His Praise (1991)

Baptist

• American Baptist Association
  • American Baptist Hymnal
  • In Spirit and In Truth
• American Baptist Churches (formerly American Baptist Convention, previously Northern Baptist Convention)
  • Christian Worship (1941, jointly with Disciples of Christ)
  • Hymns and Songs of the Spirit (1966, jointly with Disciples of Christ)
  • Hymnbook for Christian Worship (1970, jointly with Disciples of Christ)
  • Revival Gems: a Small Book with a Big Mission (1921)
• Association of Reformed Baptist Churches of America
  • Trinity Hymnal (Baptist Edition)
• Baptist General Conference
  • Gospel Hymnal (1950)
  • Worship and Service Hymnal with Favorite Swedish-Translation Hymns appended (1964, available only from Harvest Publications)
• Independent Fundamental Baptist
  • All-American Church Hymnal (1957)
  • Soul-Stirring Songs & Hymns (1972)
  • Hymns of Faith (1980)
  • Bible Truth Hymns (2008)
  • Majesty Hymns (1998)
• Mercer University
  • Celebrating Grace (2010)
• National Baptist Convention
  • Baptist Standard Hymnal with Responsive Readings
  • The New National Baptist Hymnal
  • Gospel Pearls
• North American Baptist Conference
  • North American Hymnal
• Primitive Baptist
  • Harp of Ages
  • Old Baptist Hymns (2012)
  • Old School Hymnal
  • Primitive Baptist Hymn Book
  • The Good Old Songs
  • Songs of Faith (Double Oak Press) (2000)
  • The Primitive Baptist Hymnal (2004)
• Southern Baptist Convention
  • Baptist Hymnal (1956)
  • Baptist Hymnal (1975)
  • Baptist Hymnal (1991)
  • Songs of Faith (Double Oak Press) (2000)
  • Baptist Hymnal (2008)
• Strict Baptist
  • A Selection of Hymns for Public Worship (1814)

British Pentecostal Fellowship

• Redemption Hymnal (1951)

Chartist

• National Chartist Hymn Book (1845)^[2]

Christadelphian

• Praise The Lord (Hoddesdon Christadelphian Services, 2000)
• Christadelphian Hymn Book (Christadelphian Magazine and Publishing Association, 2003)
• Worship (Christadelphian Art Trust, 2008)

Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

• Chalice Praise (2002)
• Cáliz de Bendiciones: Himnario Discipulos de Cristo (1996)
• Chalice Hymnal (1995)
• Hymnbook for Christian Worship (1970, jointly with American Baptist Convention)
• Hymns and Songs of the Spirit (1966, jointly with American Baptist Convention)
• Christian Worship (1941, jointly with Northern Baptist Convention)

Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.

• His Fullness Songs (1977)

Christian Science

• The Christian Science Hymnal (1932)
• Christian Science Hymnal Supplement (2008)

Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)

• Select Hymns For Christian Worhip and General Gospel Service (1911)
• (1918)
• (1923)
• (1926)
• (1938)
• * Select Hymns For Christian Worhip and General Gospel Service Number 2 (1950)
• Worship the Lord - Hymnal of the Church of God (1989)

Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)

• Church Hymnal (1951)
• Hymns Of The Spirit (1969)

Church of God in Christ

• Yes, Lord! (1982)

Church of God (Seventh Day)

• Songs of Truth (1916)
• Hymns of Truth (No. 1) (1940)
• Hymns of Truth (No. 2) (1955)
• Worship in Song (1967)

Church of the Brethren

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

For older hymnals, see the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints hymns.

• A Selection from the "Songs of Zion" (1918?). N.B.: Excerpted from that fuller hymnal.
• Hymns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Intellectual Reserve, Inc. (1985)
• Hymnes [de l']Église de Jésus-Christ des saints des derniers jours (1954, reprinted in 1971)
• Relief Society Songs (1940)

Church of the Nazarene

Churches of Christ

Churches of Christ in Australia

• Churches of Christ Hymn Book
• Together in Song: Australian Hymn Book II (1999)

Community of Christ

National Association of Congregational Christian Churches

• The Pilgrim Hymnal (1904)
• Hymns for a Pilgrim People, GIA Publications (2007)

Free Pentecostal/Independent Holiness

• Songs We Sing - Complete (1954)
• Holiness Hymns of Praise No. 1 (1981)
• Songs With a Message (1985)
• Holiness Hymns of Praise No. 2 (2004)

Friends (Quakers)

• Worship in Song (1995)

Gospel Assembly Churches

• Voices of Praise (1982)
• New Voices of Praise (1988)
• Glorious Praise

Holiness (Wesleyan)

• Songs of Amazing Grace

Hussite

• Czech hymnal Jistebnice hymn book (1430)

Iglesia Ni Cristo

• Himnario ng Iglesia Ni Cristo (Hymnal book of the Church of Christ) (1937)

Jehovah's Witnesses

For older hymnals, see Kingdom songs.

• Sing to Jehovah, Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania (2009)

Union for Reform Judaism

• "Union Hymnal" (ed. Cantor Alois Kaiser), Central Conference of American Rabbis (1897)
• "Union Hymnal for Jewish Worship" (ed. Rabbi Harry H. Mayer), Central Conference of American Rabbis (1914)
• "Union Hymnal: Songs and Prayers for Jewish Worship," Third Edition Revised and Enlarged (ed. Abraham Wolf Binder), Central Conference of American Rabbis (1932)
• "Union Hymnal: Songs and Prayers for Jewish Worship," Part II—Musical Services, Third Edition Revised and Enlarged (ed. Abraham Wolf Binder), Central Conference of American Rabbis (1932)
• "Union Songster: Songs and Prayers for Jewish Youth" (ed. Eric Werner), Central Conference of American Rabbis (1960)
• "Shirim u-Zemirot" (ed. Jack Gottlieb), Central Conference of American Rabbis and American Conference of Cantors (1977)
• "Gates of Song: Music for Shabbat" (ed. Charles Davidson), Transcontinental Music Publications (1987)

Lutheran

Note: Not all congregations use a hymnal from their own denomination. For example there are churches in the Evangelical Lutheran Synod that use the two oldest LCMS hymnals as well as the current WELS hymnal.

Mennonite

• Philharmonia (1875) Reprinted and now updated by Old Order Mennonite Conference of Ontario.
• Hymns and tunes for public and private worship, and Sunday schools compiled by a committee (1890)
• Church and Sunday school hymnal, a collection of hymns and sacred songs, appropriate for church services, Sunday schools, and general devotional exercises. Compiled and published under the direction of a committee appointed by Mennonite conferences (1902)
• New Harmonia Sacra (1915)
• Life Songs (1916)
• Children's hymns and songs (1924)
• Church hymnal, Mennonite, a collection of hymns and sacred songs, suitable for use in public worship, worship in the home, and all general occasions (1927)
• Select hymns and gospel songs taken from the Church hymnal for use in conferences and special meetings (1929)
• Songs of cheer for children, a collection of hymns and songs suitable for use in the primary and junior departments of our Sunday schools, authorized by Mennonite General Conference, compiled by Music Committee (1929)
• Life Songs No. 2 (1938)
• Selections from Life songs No. 2 (1942)
• Junior hymns for juniors in church, Sunday school, and Summer Bible school (1947)
• Songs of the Church (1953)
• Selections from Church hymnal for use in conference, special meetings (1953)
• The Mennonite Hymnal (1969)
• Christian Hymnal (1959)
• Christian Hymnary (1971)
• Sing and Rejoice! (1979)
• Hymnal: A Worship Book (1992)
• Sing the Journey (2005)
• Sing the Story (2007)

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Methodist

• Methodist Church of Great Britain
  • Hymns and Psalms (1983)
  • Singing the Faith (2011) ^[14]
• United Methodist Church
  • The Faith We Sing (supplement to The United Methodist Hymnal, 2000)
  • Worship & Song (2011)
  • The United Methodist Hymnal (1989)
  • The Book of Hymns (1966)
  • The Methodist Hymnal (1935)
  • The Cokesbury Worship Hymnal (unofficial)
• Methodist Episcopal Church (U.S.A.)
  • Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church, with Tunes [harmonized] (1878)
• United Methodist Church in the Philippines
  • Ilocano Hymns United (published by the National Council of Churches in the Philippines, 2002)

Moravian Church

• First Hymn Book of the Unitas Fratrum (1501). In "the Bohemian tongue", compiled by Bishop Luke of Prague, printed in Prague.^[15] Other editions: 1505 and 1519.^[16]
• First Hymn Book of the Renewed Church (1735)^[15]
• First English Moravian Hymn Book (1741).^[15] Other editions: 1746, 1754, eleven others, 1849 edited by James Montgomery and 1912 (with a supplement in 1940).^[15][16]
• The Moravian Hymn Book authorized for use in the British Province of the Moravian Church (1969). Contains: Acknowledgments, Contents, Preface, 710 numbered hymns including 140 of Moravian Church origin, the rest being from "...the whole Christian tradition of hymnody...", Index to first lines, Index of authors and translators.^[15] This Hymn Book is also used in the English speaking Caribbean.^[16] It includes a collection of Liturgies (revised 1960). A music edition was published in 1975.^[16] A version without the liturgy is also available^[17]
• Sing Out Today (1994) a collection of hymns by contemporary writers - words only. The music edition includes writers from the British Province only.^[17]
• Moravian Book of Worship (1995) the service book of the Moravian Church in North America.^[17]

New Apostolic Church

• New Apostolic Hymnal

Pentecostal Church of God

• Favorite Hymns (1966)
• Messenger Melodies (1987)

Pentecostal Holiness Church

• The Gospel Hymnal (1973)

Plymouth Brethren

• Exclusive Brethren
  • Little Flock hymnbook

Presbyterian

Quaker

See Friends

Reformed

• Protestant Reformed Church
  • The Psalter (1912; 1927)

The Salvation Army

• The Song Book of The Salvation Army - Contains the words only.
• The Tune Book of The Salvation Army - Two Editions for accompaniment either by means of Piano or Brass Band : Piano Version, and Brass Band (varying parts: Solo Cornet, Euphonium, etc.)

Seventh-day Adventist Church

• Hymns and Tunes for Those Who Keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus (1869)
• The Seventh-day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book (Hymns and Tunes) (1886)
• Christ in Song (1908)
• The Church Hymnal (1941)
• Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal (1985)

Seventh-Day Baptist Church

• 'Hymns in Commemoration of the Sufferings of Our Blessed Saviour Jesus Christ, compos'd for the celebration of his Holy Supper' (1697; 3rd ed., 1713)
• 'Hymns Compos'd for the Celebration of the Holy Ordinance of Baptism' (1712)

Shakers

• Millennial Praises - was the first Shaker hymn book published.

Spiritualists' National Union and National Spiritualist Association of Churches

• Spiritualist Hymnal: a Revised Collection of Words and Music [(harmonized)] for the Congregation. Second ed., lst printing 1960, 2nd printing 1964.
• Spiritualists' Hymn Book. 24th impression reprinted 2008.

Unification Church

• Holy Songbook, The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (2000)

Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist

United Church of Canada

• The Hymnary (1925)
• The Canadian Youth Hymnal: with music [harmonized] (1939)
• Songs of the Gospel (a supplemental collection of evangelistic hymns and songs, 1948)
• The Hymn Book (1971), produced jointly with Anglican Church of Canada
• Songs for a Gospel People (Supplement to THB, 1987)
• Voices United (1996)
• More Voices (Supplement to VU, 2007)

United Church of Christ

• Sing! Prayer and Praise, The Pilgrim Press (2009)
• The New Century Hymnal, The Pilgrim Press (1995)
• United Church of Christ Hymnal (1974)
• Pilgrim Hymnal (1958)
• Evangelical and Reformed Hymnal(1941)
• The Hymnal of the Reformed Church (1920)
• The Hymnal of the Reformed Church in the United States (1890)

United Pentecostal Church

• Pentecostal Praises (1947)
• Pentecostal Hymnal (1948)
• Sing Unto the LORD (1978)

Uniting Church in Australia

• Australian Hymn Book (1977)
• Together in Song: Australian Hymn Book II (1999)

Ukrainian Evangelical Pentecostal Church

• Songs of Joy, Ukrainian (1932). N.B.: The title in English is at the head of the Ukrainian title.

Roman Catholic Hymnals

The official sacred music of the Roman Catholic Church is in the form of Gregorian chant, and appears in the Roman Missal and the Roman Gradual. The Missal contains all that is to be sung during Mass by the priest at the altar, while the Gradual contains all the music sung by the choir. The standard Roman Gradual contains complex Gregorian Chant while the Graduale Simplex substitutes easier Gregorian chants. All of these are in Latin, and are published for the universal Church.

It has been the practice to publish hymnals of songs in the vernacular language for more than 400 years, and many of these now contain some Latin Gregorian chants. They include the following:

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney

• Australian Hymn Book (1977)
• Together in Song: Australian Hymn Book II (1999)

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne

• Catholic Worship Book (1985)

Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Ottawa

• Catholic Book of Worship (three editions) (1972,1980,1994)

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port of Spain

• Caribbean Worship and Song (three editions) (2012)

Hymnals from third-party publishers in use in the Catholic church

Portland, OR: OCP Publications

Chicago, IL: GIA Publications

Chicago, IL: World Library Publications (WLP)

• We Celebrate
• Seasonal Missalette (in either standard or revised text editions, large-print or standard-size print)
• People's Mass Book (2003 & 1984 Editions)
• Word & Song (published annually)
• Voices as One, Vol. 1 (1998)
• Voices as One, Vol. 2 (2005)
• Celebremos/Let Us Celebrate (bilingual English/Spanish)
• One in Faith (2014)

Major Inter-Denominational Protestant Hymnals

• African American Heritage Hymnal, GIA Publications (2001)
• Celebration Hymnal, Word Music (1997)
• Christian Life Hymnal, Hendrickson Publishers (2006)
• Favorite Hymns of Praise, Hope Publishing (1967)
• Great Hymns of the Faith, Brentwood Music (1968)
• Heavenly Highway Hymns, Stamps-Baxter Music and Printing Company
• The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration, Word Music (1986)
• Hymns for the Family of God, Brentwood Music (1976)
• Hymns for Today's Church, Jubilate Hymns (1982)
• Keswick Hymn Book, Marshall, Morgan & Scott (1938)
• Mission Praise HarperCollins (several editions 1980s onwards)
• A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools, Yale University Press (1992)
• The Psalms of David Imitated, by Isaac Watts, (1719)
• Recueil de chant maçonnique, éd. 1984 (words only, in French, of Christian-compatible Masonic hymns)
• Redemption Hymnal (1951)
• Sacred Songs and Solos, Marshall, Morgan & Scott (1921)
• Sing the Faith, Geneva Press (1993)
• Triumphant Service Songs (1934)
• Worship & Rejoice, Hope Publishing
• The Worshiping Church, Hope Publishing (1990)
• Majesty Hymns, Majesty Music (1996)
• Rejoice Hymns, Majesty Music (2011)
• Christian Hymns (hymnbook), Evangelical Movement of Wales (1977; 2d edn. 2004)

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