hymnals
Church song collections
Hymnals are books containing hymns—religious songs meant for congregational worship.
Churches keep hymnals in pew racks for services, though many congregations now project lyrics on screens instead.
She found her grandmother's handwritten notes in the margins of the old hymnal.
Fixed sanctuary seating
- choirOrganized group of singers
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- serviceAid or maintenance
vespers · matins · sanctuary · altar · processional · recessional · Sunday · mass
Lines of poetry
- stanzasUnits of grouped lines
- melodyPleasing sequence of notes
- harmonyAgreement or musical blend
- four-partHaving four divisions
soprano · alto · tenor · bass · notation · key · tempo · meter
Legally or morally required
- hardcoverRigid-bound book format
- clothboundBound in textile
- pagesBound paper sheets
- ribbonSlender ornamental strip
bookmark · gilt-edged · spine · rack · worn · tattered · leather · embossed
English family name
- WesleyCommon English given name
- MoodyAnglo-American proper name
- psalterDevotional song compilation
- GregorianNamed for a pope
medieval · Victorian · colonial · revival · gospel · spiritual · folk · broadside
Protestant denomination member
- BaptistImmersion-practicing Protestant
- LutheranReformation-era Protestant denomination
- PresbyterianElder-governed Protestant denomination
- EpiscopalU.S. Anglican denomination
Catholic · Anglican · Pentecostal · evangelical · Protestant · Moravian · Mennonite · Wesleyan
pews
Fixed sanctuary seating
- choirOrganized group of singers
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
service · vespers · matins · sanctuary · altar · processional · recessional · Sunday · mass · evensong
verses
Lines of poetry
four-part · soprano · alto · tenor · bass · notation · key · tempo · meter · refrain
binding
Legally or morally required
- hardcoverRigid-bound book format
- clothboundBound in textile
- pagesBound paper sheets
ribbon · bookmark · gilt-edged · spine · rack · worn · tattered · leather · embossed · numbered
Watts
English family name
Gregorian · medieval · Victorian · colonial · revival · gospel · spiritual · folk · broadside · tunebook
Methodist
Protestant denomination member
- BaptistImmersion-practicing Protestant
- LutheranReformation-era Protestant denomination
- PresbyterianElder-governed Protestant denomination
Episcopal · Catholic · Anglican · Pentecostal · evangelical · Protestant · Moravian · Mennonite · Wesleyan · ecumenical
- church historychurch history, apostles, Protestant Reformation, Christian history, baptism
- Christian materialsBible, gospel tracts, Bible tracts, tract, devotional
- church furnishingsaltar cloth, pew, altar rail, baptismal font, pews
- hymnalshymnbook, hymnary
- Protestant Culturechurch choir, pews, steeple, Sunday service, preacher
- Anglican textsBook of Common Prayer, prayer book, prayer books, Thirty-Nine Articles, lectionary