Nicholas Temperley. The Music of the English Parish Church. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979. A comprehensive study of Anglican parochial
church music, including hymns and hymn singing up to 1965.
(This work is temporarily out of print; a new paperback edition is pending.) Nicholas Temperley and Charles G. Manns. Fuging Tunes in the Eighteenth Century. Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, No. 49. Detroit: Information Coordinators, 1983. A pilot study for the printed HTI.
Nicholas Temperley. "The Hymn Tune Index: Everlasting Praise, I." The Musical Times 139 (Summer 1998), 46-8. A description of the printed HTI, from
a British point of view, at the time of its publication.
Nicholas Temperley. "The Hymn Tune Index." The Hymn 49/3 (July 1998), 7-8. A description of the printed HTI, from
an American point of view, at the time of its publication.
Stanley Sadie, ed. The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edition. London: Macmillan, 2001. Contains useful articles on "Hymn",
"Psalms (Metrical)", "Psalmody", and the music of various
Christian denominations such as Anglicanism, Methodism, Congregationalism,
etc.
For reviews of the printed HTI, see What Others Think.
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