Features of the Christian Virtual Hymnal Lite
The Christian Virtual Hymnal Lite is a scaled down version of the full Christian Virtual Hymnal 20K. It contains only the hymns and shape note hymns. Included functionality is reduced to just the following:
See all music on your screen exactly as it will print. Features include:- Generally, traditional 4 part SATB harmony as found in the physical hymnals - and 4 or 3 part harmony for shape note hymns;
- Transpose to any key;
- Scale the music and/or verses to almost any size and quickly reformat;
- Re-order verses and/or delete any verses --- display/print just the verses you want;
- Search for hymns with specified attributes (e.g., tune, meter, words, phrases);
- Verses under the notes or after the hymn in 1 or 2 column format;
- Export verses only to an ascii (text) file;
- Display a hymn using either mixed single and double stemming, or using only single stemmed notation.
- Export to a MusicEase format file that can be loaded into the MusicEase notation editor for complete editing.
And when playing hymns,
- Change tempos and specify number of times to repeat playing;
- Specify different general MIDI instruments for the treble and bass clefs;
- When playing a hymn more than once, specify different instruments to be used for each repetition (much like when an organist changes the organ stops at the beginning of each stanza);
- Save hymns and shape note hymns as MIDI files which then can be played later or imported into a sequencing program for further manipulation.
Altogether about 20,000 public domain selections are included ready for use. No CCLI license required.