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- A citation
is an occurrence of a specific tune in a specific source.
- A source is
a book or piece of sheet music containing at least one tune.
- A tune is a
melody that sets a text and is suitable to be repeated for
several verses. Extremely long or soloistic
melodies (such as arias) are not considered tunes. For a
more precise definition see Scope.
- A text is a
metrical, strophic, religious lyric; in other words, a hymn
or metrical psalm.
- The source code
is a unique identifier for a source. There are three kinds:
generic codes begin with * ; title codes
begin with # ; and compiler codes begin with the
first letter of the compiler’s last name. The complete
list of source codes may be found in the printed
edition of the Hymn Tune Index.
- The source compiler is the
person or persons who compiled or edited the source.
- The source title is the title
as it appears on the title page (long titles are shortened,
sometimes considerably).
- The text (first 2 lines)
is the first two phrases of the first stanza of the hymn.
- The text code
is a unique identifier for a text. It consists of the initial
letters of the first six words (for example, APTOED for “All
people that on earth do dwell”) plus a sequential number.
An alphabetical list of text codes may be found in the printed
edition of the Hymn Tune Index.
- The tune attribution is the
origin of the tune (composer or other book) as named in a given
source. This may or may not be the actual origin.
- The tune code
is a unique identifier for a tune. The higher the number, the
later the tune first appeared in print. Letters designate variants
of a single tune. “Starts with” and “contains”
are disallowed for tune code searches and return the same result
as “is exactly.” A chronological list of all
tune codes up to 17424 may be found in the printed
edition of the Hymn Tune Index.
- The tune composer is the
actual or probable composer of the tune as identified by the
editors of the Hymn Tune Index.
- The tune incipit consists
of the first fifteen notes of the tune. Enter the notes numerically
by scale degree (use “1” as first note of the scale
in both major and minor). Ignore rhythm and accidentals.
- The tune name is the name
given above the printed tune or in the source’s index.
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