Music

Indices of chants in selected manuscripts and early printed sources of the liturgical office. The Cantus project is housed and maintained by the Music at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.

"MUSICA came into being in 1983 as a project of the Centre d’Art Polyphonique d’Alsace (CAPA) in Strasbourg, France. In 1990, the International Centre for Choral Music (ICCM) joined the project to lend its support for the ambition expressed by the International Federation for Choral Music (IFCM) of creating a comprehensive database of the world’s choral music. More than thirty years later, MUSICA has amassed data on almost 200,000 musical scores."

"This site has ov­er 15,100 Chris­tian hymns and Gos­pel songs from ma­ny de­no­mi­na­tions and lan­guag­es: Lyr­ics, sheet mu­sic, au­dio, pic­tures, bi­og­ra­phies, his­to­ry and more."

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Mercer’s Archives contains roughly 50 hymnals, ranging in date from the early 1800s to the present day.

The Ken Medema Collection consists of contracts for events, correspondence, sheet music, books, and audio-visual materials (in a variety of formats) spanning Medema’s 40+ year career as a musician, beginning in 1973. Medema is a blind Christian musician who performs in a wide variety of venues, from local congregations to charity fund-raisers, to high school and university campuses, to denominational youth gatherings, to universally televised religious programs, to corporate conventions, to annual assemblies of national organizations.

Jesse Mercer, the namesake of Mercer University, first published his "The Cluster of Spiritual Songs, Divine Hymns, and Sacred Poems" in 1800 as a collection of roughly 150 hymns. Mercer revised and expanded the work several times and the text ultimately had eleven editions published. "The Cluster of Spiritual Songs" is considered one of the most important hymn collections from the South during the period from 1800 to 1835.