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Article Excerpt
The Hymn Tune Index. By Nicholas Temperley. Charles G. Manns, associate editor. Database and interface design by Joseph Herl and David Zeiders. http://hymntune.music.uiuc.edu. [Requires standard Web browser. Free.]
Hymntune Index and Related Hymn Materials. By D. DeWitt Wasson. Michael Fry, technical advisor. (Studies in Liturgical Musicology, no. 6.) Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2001. [CD-ROM. Requires standard Web browser with full Javascript support. ISBN 0-8108-4144-4. $350.]
The two indexes reviewed here seem destined to be compared to one another. Both are monumental sacred music reference tools, each was published in print in 1998 (Nicholas Temperley, The Hymn Tune Index: A Census Of English-Language Hymn Tunes in Printed Sources from 1535 to 1820 [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998]; D. DeWitt Wasson, Hymntune Index and Related Hymn Materials [Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 1998]), their titles are nearly identical, and now both are available in electronic formats. Yet significant differences exist between the two, and they are complimentary rather than competing resources. They differ in the periods covered: their intended audiences diverge; and their scopes vary. Now the formats chosen for their new versions differ, as do their costs. The present review will summarize the purpose, goals, strengths, and weaknesses of the print tools, and then compare and contrast the Web and CD-ROM versions.
If scholars of sacred music and church musicians were happy with the appearance of these two indexes in 1998, they should now be thrilled with the access provided by these new versions. Because both print indexes were compiled from databases, the publication of the data in digital format not only makes electronic access possible, but the end result is easier to use than the paper counterpart. In the case of the Temperley Web site, users are able to search the database directly....
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