A content analysis of the back of the book indexes of hymnals of the Baptist, Episcopal and Methodist denominations in the United States

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Patillo, Ericka J.
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • This paper documents the content analysis of back of the book indexes of selected Methodist, Episcopal and Baptist denominational hymnals published between 1801 and 1996 and designated for use by these American congregations. The study was conducted to ascertain if any denominational and chronological trends in the indexing of these hymnals exist; if so, to determine what they are, the significance of these differences, to speculate on the reasons these differences exist and to explore the ramifications of these differences to the fields of hymnology and information science. An important historical discovery was that metrical and alphabetical tune indexes appeared at the same time that scores began to be included in hymnals (1855). Additionally, although the three denominations share more than half the contents of their individual hymnbooks, each group favors a particular set of indexes.
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  • Greenberg, Jane
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