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Music & Liturgy Planning

• Music & Liturgy - resource page from The Episcopal Church website
• The African American Lectionary - a collaborative project of The African American Pulpit & American Baptist College of Nashville
• Task Force on Liturgical and Prayer Book Revision (some proposed materials there, along with existing liturgies)
• Liturgical changes authorized by General Convention 2018 (SCMC had a lecture on this page in the summer of 2019)
• Revised Common Lectionary Prayers (Prepared by the Consultation on Common Texts) and hosted by Vanderbilt's Divinity School)
• The "hidden" part of The Hymnal 1982 - notes and explanation about what's contained in the SERVICE MUSIC hymnal
• Textweek  (Scripture study, worship and liturgy links and resources, indexed according to the texts of the Revised Common Lectionary)
• Episcopalchurch.org's Liturgical Calendar - with clicky links that renders beautiful text (bonus - there are pictures of the saints!)
• Weekly Bulletin inserts (From Episcopalchurch.org)
• The Lectionary Page - a trove of text, a reverse lectionary, lessons indicated for out-of-the-ordinary services
• The Daily Lectionary - Vanderbilt Divinity Library
• The Book of Common Prayer - Online and fully searchable
• Various Books of Common Prayer - Multiple versions & editions
• When will it be read?   (Ever wonder when you'll hear your favorite Psalm or scripture passage?  Click on the scripture passages to determine what Sunday they'll be read.) 
• Anglicans Online - a vast compendium of all sorts of resources
• Cantica Nova - planning resource from a Roman Catholic worldview
• Music resources for congregational and small group singing
• The Billabong - a resource from Anglicans in Australia
• Liturgical Calendar search - JWPepper.com's anthem search feature
• Anthem search - choral wiki  for public domain works
• Lessons & Carols   on  Lectionarypage.net - from  Book of Occasional Services
• You Call That Church Music? - very alternative church music site
• The Advent Project -  expand Advent from four to seven weeks!  Resources for services, lectionary, and music here.
• 32 Hymn for Catholic Funerals - a listing of hymn titles from CCwatershed
• Introduction to the Anglican Music Tradition helpful contextual info - might be controversial - individual mileage may vary
• Catholic Funeral Hymns - best hymns and how to put together a Catholic funeral service
• Oremus Anglican liturgical library - prayer books (and other goodies) from across the Anglican realm!​​

Organ

• List of short and simple organ preludes and postludes (From CCWatershed)
• Hymns without words (a site for hymns and other music and songs with organ accompaniment only - perhaps useful to folks who want to do some home study)
• Free Harmonies from CF Boyd
• AGO web catalog @ University of Boston
• Secrets of Organ Playing (Dr. Vidas Pinkevicius shares tips and tricks of the trade)
• The Art of Improv (an article on recapturing the "old" art of improvising at the organ)
• Hymnspiring Your Congregational Singing (a hymn accompaniment workshop for church organists)
• organimprovisation.com (a help for those in improvisatory need)

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Mechanics of Singing

• Tallahassee Civic Chorale    (lovely resources for vocal production and music theory here)

Music Learning Apps & Sites

• Music Resource Guide for Students (contributed from a student fan of this resources page) - a wonderful compendium of apps and websites for those learning to play and create music.
• MusicTheory.net - also has a companion iOS app called Tenuto. An unusual (if not unique) feature of this site is that any customization you make to an exercise (you can control things like range, number of sharps & flats, etc.) has its   own url that you can copy and reuse. (Make simple web pages for choristers  using these links—it saves having to constantly set up the same exercises. If you're on an iOS device when you click on the link, it gives you the option of opening the exercise in the browser or using Tenuto.
• BlueNote  (presently iOS only) - Learn to read music notes (pitches) in minutes by memorizing one set of notes at a time via random repetition. Begin at level one and build musical note recognition while advancing through all levels until all notes have been mastered.

Technology

• Finale  (quick search link - just type in your problem)
• OCR Scanner  (for when you need to convert a picture to text)
• Audio Converter    (Free!  For when you need to convert an iPhone .mp4 recording to an .mp3, wave to .mp3, etc.)
• FreeConvert  (convert audio, photos, documents free with no signup required)
• QR Code generator    (Free!  Text-to-QR Code)
• Another great FREE QR Code Generator (From WEBSITE PLANET - customizable!) 
• audio converter (when you need to convert an mp4 to an mp3, or you need to strip sound out of a video, this tool is fast and free - other converters here, too)
• jepgcompress.com (free image resizing, different formats, multiples at once, drag and drop)

Groups, Discussions, Forums, Blogs

• Church Music Forward: Preserving Traditions with Imagination (website and companion Facebook discussion group, quarterly newsletter with free stuff )
• Episcopal Church Musicians (a Facebook discussion group)
• It's me, Margaret (Here's a sample: "When I made the impulsive decision to go back to church after two decades in the heathen wilderness, I bypassed the pews and headed straight for the choir loft..."
• MessyBun&Jesus - a rising junior in music education blogs her experiences (of special note: her first Sewanee Church Music Conference in the summer of 2018)

Humor

• Church Humor and Funny Bulletin Malapropisms
• "Liturgical Fouls"​ 

Online Music Stores

• Lois Fyfe - no online  catalog, but contact them -  they can help you find what you need and have enough knowledge to help even if you don't know exactly what you want.
  
• Stephen Tappe Sacred Music - Stephen Tappe is a composer, arranger, conductor, choir trainer, organist, liturgist, editor, and engraver based near Denver, Colorado. This site offers access to compositions and commissions as well as to arranging, music engraving and editing services
• Ficks Music - online-only retailer for sheet music focused on piano, violin and small ensembles. "We work hard at providing that small-store knowledge with the easy purchasing experience of Amazon." 
• JW Pepper - online ordering with a vast catalog and lots of perusal copies (in PDF form and  select streaming).  There is also a liturgical music planning calendar.
• Paraclete Press -  some nice resources and a liturgical search feature.
• St. James Music Press - perusal of entire catalog is at your fingertips.  To print or buy anything a $139/year subscription is required.
• Spectrum Music - with online catalog.
• Hal Leonard - source for sheet music with a pretty robust selection.
• sheetmusicplus
• church publishing
• PicClick  - amazing source for second hand sheet music (all kinds of gems on this one). 

Downloadable Music Resources

• SJMP    (click "liturgical calendar" for anthems suitable for specific lectionary passages)
• Choral Public Domain  Library (cpdl)
• Instrumental Public Domain site    (imslp)
• David Maurand - site for free descants (and sometimes alternate harmonizations and other instrumental parts)
• David McCarthy's music site  (some Anglican chant, choral works, descants, and handbell pieces)
• ritesong - a subscription service for inserting music in service leaflets, but it has a nice hymnal and supplementals search feature complete with preview page  and clickable streaming melodies, too
• Jeff Whitmill's descants
• Derek Remes (compositions and recordings from Eastman School of Music, Derek Remes:  music theorist, organist, pianist and composer)

Handbells

• Ashley Danyew's compendium of free handbell music online

Hymnody

• Hymnals and Indices - Looking for a hymn, but don't remember what its number is?  Got you covered.
• Southern Harmony and Shape-note Singing Resource
• Hymn Tune Index  - all SORTS of hymns here; search by metre or tune name
• Lectionary & Oremus Suggestions for Hymns - from all sorts of hymnals  (Year A, Year B, Year C)
• Singing from the Lectionary - a compendium of all sorts of hymnals
• ​Hymnary.org  - a treasure trove of resources for hymntunes, literature, lectionary-based searches, etc.
• Cyberhymnal - lots of hymns and resources here

Psalmnody

• Excellent RC Psalms  - the Chabanel CCWatershed project

 Music Apps We Love

• ForScore (Not a free app, but you can put your scores into your iPad or other favorite device, mark your music, manage and rearrange your pages, create setlists, etc.)
• Complete Ear Trainer - get it on GooglePlay (there is no iOS version, sadly)

Service Leaflets Online

             Please feel free to suggest others!

• Trinity Church, Wall Street NY
• National Cathedral
• St. Mark's Episcopal in Louisville, KY (Josh Duncan, organist & choirmaster)
• Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Bristol, VA
• St. John’s Episcopal Church, St. Paul, MN  (not updated regularly)
• St. John’s Anglican Church, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
• Grace Episcopal Church, Utica, NY
  
• St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Waynesboro, GA​​

Miscellaneous Stuff

• Style Guide:  The Episcopal Church
• Pray as you go: This is the online site, but you can download the app on your phone (for when you need a quick spiritual chiropractic).
• Wikipedia's list of Anglican Composers
• Transcribing English to IPA  (this is DefCon 3-level choir nerd stuff...)
• Sacred Space  (online devotional when you need a quick "pick-me-up")
• The clickable Bible on one page (Versions: New American Standard and/or English Standard Version)
• Liturgical Calendar - from Lectionary Page
• Public Domain Music List Recommendations (Peter Conte)
• Bible Trivia (a free site with fun Bible trivia questions - also other trivia sections)

Analog Resources  to peruse or purchase:  
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• The Episcopal Musician's Handbook
• Liturgical Music for the Revised Common Lectionary (one each for Years A, B & C)​
• PLANNING for Rites and Rituals: A Resource for Episcopal Worship  - Planning resources include Day and reading introductions; Propers, Collect of the day, Scripture overviews (including both Track 1 and 2); Eucharistic preface, color of the season/day; Prayers of the people for each Sunday and major feast day; Exploration of images in the readings; Ideas for approaching the day and its texts in preaching and worship; Ideas for engaging all ages and making connections to faith in daily life; Hymn suggestions; Notes on commemorations of saints for midweek worship or study; Seasonal introductions; Ideas for deepening children, youth, and adults' engagement with worship and themes for the season; Supplemental seasonal rites

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