Links to Global Worship Music Resources
Websites where you can get and/or listen to some samples of the music (with songbooks and hymnals that contain singable English words or translations), as of March 27, 2009

I. General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM), United Methodist Church, "Global Praise" CDs and songbooks: http://new.gbgm-umc.org/resources/globalpraise/music/

This includes, in particular:

A. Global Praise 1-3 (CDs and songbooks):

1: http://new.gbgm-umc.org/resources/globalpraise/music/index.cfm?i=13113

2: http://new.gbgm-umc.org/resources/globalpraise/music/index.cfm?i=13114umc.org/resources/globalpraise/music/index.cfm?i=13114
3: http://new.gbgm-umc.org/resources/globalpraise/music/index.cfm?i=13115

The Song Index by Country/Region (about 120): http://gbgm-umc.org/docs/gp/pdfs/globalpraisebycountry.pdf

B. Africa Praise I (CD and songbook):
http://new.gbgm-umc.org/resources/globalpraise/music/index.cfm?i=13086i=13086umc.org/resources/globalpraise/music/index.cfm?i=13086
(*See also Abingdon Press, NJALO [Always] - A Collection of 16 Hymns in the African Tradition [songbook with an accompanying CD]: http://www.abingdonpress.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=2271

http://www.amazon.co.jp/Njalo-Always-Collection-African-Tradition/dp/0687498074/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=english-books&qid=1240476868&sr=8-2

http://www.amazon.com/Njalo-Always-Collection-African-Tradition/dp/0687498074/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1238337787&sr=11-1)

C: Caribbean Praise (CD and songbook): http://new.gbgm-umc.org/resources/globalpraise/music/index.cfm?i=13088umc.org/resources/globalpraise/music/index.cfm?i=13088

D: Tenemos Esperanza - We Have Hope (Latin America, CD and songbook):http://new.gbgm-umc.org/resources/globalpraise/music/index.cfm?i=13176

* The tango hymn of hope in hopelessness, Tenemos Esperanza, is audible in original Spanish twice during the last 15 minutes on an online video, Latin America Plenary of the 9th Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC):

http://www.livebox.cz/wcc-assembly/iframe.asp?ID=323&IDS=1773&WMBitrate=512000

*It is also found at the following YouTube video sites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr4AY9kVRf8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Y5wOKc69w&feature=related

*An excellent English translation of this hymn is found in the following global hymnal:

Agape - Songs of Hope and Reconciliation:

http://www.lutheranworld.org/What_We_Do/DTS/Programs/DTS-Worship-Cong_Life.html

E. For Everyone Born - Global Songs for an Emerging Church (CD and songbook): http://new.gbgm-umc.org/resources/globalpraise/music/index.cfm?i=18883

God, in your grace (a theme song for the WCC 9th Assembly): http://www.wcc-assembly.info/en/programme/spiritual-life/songs/theme-song-2.html

Pelas dores deste mundo (For the troubles and the sufferings of the world):http://www.wcc-assembly.info/en/programme/spiritual-life/songs/pelas-dores-deste-mundo.html [a Brazilian hymn for the WCC 9th Assembly]
YouTube video of this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zDnXLTBlyQ&feature=related

F. Put Your Arms Around the World: Global Song and Activities for Children

http://new.gbgm-umc.org/resources/globalpraise/music/index.cfm?i=27304

II. GIA Publications (http://www.giamusic.com/)

This includes:

A. Pablo Sosa (an international church music leader in Argentina), Este es el Dia / This Is the Day

CD: http://www.giamusic.com/search_details.cfm?title_id=8859

Songbook: http://www.giamusic.com/search_details.cfm?title_id=7627

*Calvin Institute of Christian Worship - Pablo Sosa on Congregational Singing: http://www.calvin.edu/worship/stories/sosa.php

Pablo Sosa is an international church music leader from Argentina.

B. Taizé Community (France, http://www.taize.fr/): http://www.giamusic.com/bios/taize

C. Sound the Bamboo - CCA Hymnal 2000 (an Asian hymnal of the Christian Conference of Asia[CCA] with English translations)

Some sheet music & MIDI sound clips: http://www.cca.org.hk/resources/music/songs.htm

The hymnal: http://www.giamusic.com/search_details.cfm?title_id=5487

ONLINE Audio clips of songs in Sound the Bamboo – CCA Hymnal 2000 *RealPlayer is required: http://www.real.com/

Language: Thamiliz

Sound the Bamboo no. 36, Thanthanai Thuthippomee (Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow): http://www.manavai.com/songs/thant/thant1.ram

Sound the Bamboo no. 55, Yellaam Yesuvee (Christ Is All to Me)

:http://www.manavai.com/songs/thant/thant2.ram

Sound the Bamboo no. 162, Vaarum aiyaa podhegeree (O Come to Us, Pastor of the Flock) : http://www.manavai.com/songs/vn/vn1_1.ram

Japanese *Sound the Bamboo contains 20 hymns from Japan, including a popular Japanese hymn, Gariraya no kaze kaoru okade (In All Galilee Where Sweet Breezes Blew) The Japanese words with a melody: http://promises.cool.ne.jp/In_Old_Galilee_when_Sweet_Breezes_Blew.html

The English words with some background information is found in English in Kyodan Newsletter, No. 349, October 2008: http://www.uccj.or.jp/knl/2008/10/desire-to-teach-faith-to-child.html

YouTube videos INDIA

Sound the Bamboo no.15, Om Bhagawan (O Praise the LORD): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODwsDNMRrrE

Sound the Bamboo no.41, Jei jei Yesu (Jesus, Jesus, How We Adore You): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7B89sJCX0E
Sound the Bamboo no.59, Yesu raajen thiruvediku (Jesus, Savior Lord, Lo to You I Fly) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy1cx7AQgWc
Sound the Bamboo no.309, Mero man lago (Joy Abounds, Dear Lord) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-fD3SYEyxY 　

INDONESIA

Sound the Bamboo no.291, Gembala baik bersulin nan merdu (My Shepherd LORD): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsm9WehLtYc

AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND Sound the Bamboo no.205, He Came Singing Love http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0zjzZtG42M

Sound the Bamboo no.60, Tama ngakau marie (Son of God, Whose heart Is Peace):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gr_ptFsEXA&feature=related

PHILIPPINES
Sound the Bamboo, no. 30, Purihin Ang Panginoon (Give Praise to the God of All Earth)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njWcjsV0AsI&feature=related

TAIWAN

Sound the Bamboo no. 224, Pais ka lau pa ku (From This Time Onwards)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5p7pJalbtE

*Another popular Japanese hymn on the life of Jesus, Mabune no nakani (In a lowly manger born/Behold the Man) is found in Japanese with a melody at this website: http://promises.cool.ne.jp/mabune-no-nakani.html

English translations of this hymn are contained in the following hymnals:

1. Japanese Hymns in English (Tsunobue-sha Publishing Co.Ltd., 1975 [pp.17-8], available at Kyo Bun Kwan, a Christian bookstore in Ginza [3F], Tokyo: http://www.kyobunkwan.co.jp/MAP2.html [1,500 yen per copy])

2. The New Century Hymnal (1995)

The English translation of the hymn in this hymnal is reproduced in Kyodan Newsletter, No. 349, October 2008, with some background information in English:http://www.uccj.or.jp/knl/2008/10/japanese-hymns-now-appearing-i.html

The English translation of the words audible with a mp3: http://ingeb.org/spiritua/inalowly.html

3. Lutheran Book of Worship (1978) : http://www.augsburgfortress.org/store/item.jsp?clsid=257739&productgroupid=0&isbn=080063330X

*See also Japanese hymnody in English: http://music.geocities.jp/dikaios/CMstudy/English/index.html
(Click "RESOURCES" and "On Japanese Hymnody")

*CDs that contain these Japanese hymns are available at Ein Karem, on the 4F of the Kyo Bun Kwan buliding in Ginza, Tokyo: http://www.kyobunkwan.co.jp/MAP2.html

*A hymn with Japanese pentatonic scale: Lord, We Come Before Thee Now (Kami yo mimae ni)

See my English article on this hymn in Japan Christian Activity News, Spring 2005, pp.9-10: http://ncc-j.org/english/jcan/2005%20Spring.pdf

III. Iona Community (Scotland, http://www.iona.org.uk/)

- The Wild Goose Publications: http://www.ionabooks.com/index.php?option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&category_id=12&Itemid=1&vmcchk=1&Itemid=1&orderby=product_list&limitstart=0

IV. Hymns of global justice, peace, and caring for creation by Shirley Erena Murray, an international hymn writer from New Zealand

http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sub=27&search=64http://www.hymns.org.nz/ourhymnbooks.php
http://www.hymns.org.nz/ourhymnbooks.php

CDs and sheet music of some of her songs (GIA Publications):  http://www.giamusic.com/product_search.cfm?criteria=Murray

God, in your grace, which is contained in I. - E. For Everyone Born - Global Songs for an Emerging Church, is one of her pieces.

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Some more important hymnals and books on music for global worship:

1. Per Harling, Worshipping Ecumenically: Orders of Service from Global Meetings with Suggestions for Local Use, World Council of Churches, 1995.

http://publications.oikoumene.org/index.php?2070&backPID=2077&begin_at=20&alp=W&aalp=A&tt_products=57


2. Thuma Mina: International Ecumenical Hymnbook, Strube Verlag, 1995 [The publisher's website in German: http://www.strube.de/shopnavigation/alle-produkte.html?tx_eshop%5Baction%5D=sview&tx_eshop%5Bfreitext%5D=Thuma%20Mina&tx_eshop%5Bproduktlinie%5D=0&tx_eshop%5BproduktUid%5D=301&cHash=1853389535 ]

http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?__mk_ja_JP=%83J%83%5E%83J%83i&url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Thuma+Mina

http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?ac=sl&st=sl&qi=PdMTHfBNaslhZUv.lLRJ6uWwPws_4512947461_1:103:685&bq=author%3Ddieter%2520trautwein%26title%3Dthuma%2520mina%2520singing%2520with%2520our%2520partner%2520churches%253B%2520international%2520ecumenical%2520hymnbook

3. C. Michael Hawn, Gather into One: Praying and Singing Globally, Wm B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.,2003.

http://www.eerdmans.com/shop/product.asp?p_key=9780802809834

4. Halle Halle: We Sing the World Round
http://www.augsburgfortress.org/store/item.jsp?clsid=258085&productgroupid=0&isbn=6000120214