Logos Hymnal Media Resource - Alternatives?

Maria

From about a month ago, I noticed that opening the Logos Hymnal Media Resource would drastically slow my desktop Logos program. It takes some time to even open, and if I ask Logos to do other things while it's trying to open, things freeze. Also, while I have the hymnal open, it's hard to work with anything else in Logos, everything is terribly slow. When I close the hymnal (which takes some time), everything else works normally again. 

I don't know if this problem just started a month ago because I wasn't using this resource before that. 

Logos (if I have the hymnal closed) works quickly and without any problem.

I'm wondering if there is a way to fix this problem? Or, if maybe there is another hymnal that has only lyrics available, so it won't slow things down so much? (I just read the hymns, I don't listen to them.)

This is the version I'm using: Logos Bible Software 9.11 SR-1  9.11.0.0022

I'm on a windows 10 laptop. 

Any ideas would be welcome!

Thank you!

Maria   

MJ. Smith

I don't know why it is slow for you but as for alternatives, here is a bibliography of some of the hymnals in my library.

Hymnal Bibliography

Barton, William. Six Centuries of Select Hymns and Spiritual Songs Collected out of the Holy Bible Together with a Catechism, the Canticles, and a Catalogue of Vertuous Women / by William Barton. Early English Books Online. London: J. Heptinstall for William Cooper .., 1688.

Beecher, Henry Ward. Plymouth Collection of Hymns and Tunes for the Use of Christian Congregations. New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1859.

Belden, Franklin Edson, ed. Songs for the King’s Business: Special Selections for All Occasions. Chicago: Sunday School Supply House, 1909.

Bevan, Frances. Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1894.

Bonar, Horatius. Communion Hymns. London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1881.

Bonar, Horatius. Hymns of Faith and Hope: First Series. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1866.

Bonar, Horatius. Hymns of Faith and Hope: Second Series. London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1886.

Bonar, Horatius. Hymns of Faith and Hope: Third Series. London: James Nisbet & Co., 1866.

Bonar, Horatius. Hymns of the Nativity. London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1879.

Bonar, Horatius. Lyra Consolationis: Or, Hymns for the Day of Sorrow & Weariness. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1866.

Brownlie, John, trans. Hymns of the Holy Eastern Church: Translated from the Service Books with Introductory Chapters on the History, Doctrine, and Worship of the Church. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1902.

Burns & Lambert. The Catholic Hymnal: Hymns Selected for Public and Private Use. London: Burns & Lambert, n.d.

Ephrem the Syrian. Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns. Edited by Bernard McGinn. Translated by Kathleen E. McVey. The Classics of Western Spirituality. New York; Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1989.

Ephrem the Syrian. Select Metrical Hymns and Homilies of Ephraem Syrus. Translated by Henry Burgess. London; Berlin: Robert B. Blackader; Sampson Low, Son and Co.; Asher and Co., 1853.

Goodrich, A. B., and Walter B. Gilbert, eds. Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church with Music. Revised Edition. New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1890.

Gordon, A. J., and Arthur T. Pierson. The Coronation Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns and Songs. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1894.

Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum). Bethlehem, PA: Provincial Synod, 1920.

Irons, Joseph. Zion’s Hymns: For the Use of Zion’s Sons and Daughters. Tenth Edition, Enlarged. Camberwell: City Steam Press, n.d.

Keach, Benjamin. Spiritual Songs: Being the Marrow of the Scripture, in Songs of Praise to Almighty God; From the Old and New Testament. Second Edition. London: John Marshal, 1700.

Ken, Thomas. Bishop Ken’s Christian Year or Hymns and Poems for the Holy Days and Festivals of the Church. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1868.

Lund, Eric, and Bernard McGinn, eds. Seventeenth-Century Lutheran Meditations and Hymns. The Classics of Western Spirituality. New York; Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2011.

Luther, Martin. Hymns of the Reformation. Translated by Philip Melancthon. London: Charles Gilpin, 1845.

Luther, Martin. The Hymns of Martin Luther: Set to Their Original Melodies with an English Version. Edited by Leonard Woolsey Bacon. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883.

Luther, Martin, and John Hunt. The Spiritual Songs of Martin Luther: From the German. Translated by Thomas Clark. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1853.

Mellas, Andrew with Saint Romanos the Melodist. Hymns of Repentance. Edited by John Behr. Translated by Andrew Mellas. Vol. 61. Popular Patristics Series. Yonkers, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2020.

Neale, J. M., trans. Hymns of the Eastern Church. London; New York: J. T. Hayes; Pott & Amery, 1870.

Oudenrijn, M. Van. The Harp of Glory: Enzira Sebhat: An Alphabetical Hymn of Praise for the Ever-Blessed Virgin Mary from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Edited by John Behr. Translated by John Anthony McGuckin. Vol. 39. Popular Patristics Series. Yonkers, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2010.

Page, T. E., E. Capps, W. H. D. Rouse, L. A. Post, and E. H. Warmington, eds. Prudentius. Translated by H. J. Thomson. Vol. I & II. The Loeb Classical Library. London; Cambridge, MA: William Heinemann Ltd; Harvard University Press, 1949–1953.

Pick, Bernhard. Hymns and Poetry of the Eastern Church. New York; Cincinnati: Eaton & Mains; Jennings & Graham, 1908.

Pierson, Arthur T., and A. J. Gordon. The Coronation Hymnal: A Selection of Hymns and Songs. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1894.

Prudentius. Prudentius: Latin Text. Edited by T. E. Page, E. Capps, W. H. D. Rouse, L. A. Post, and E. H. Warmington. Vol. I & II. The Loeb Classical Library. London; Cambridge, MA: William Heinemann Ltd; Harvard University Press, 1949–1953.

Ryle, J. C. Hymns for the Church on Earth. London: William Hunt and Company, 1876.

Seiss, Joseph A. Recreation Songs. Philadelphia: George W. Frederick, 1878.

Seiss, Joseph A., and Charles Pilling Engelmann. Church Song: A Repertory of Music for the Rendering of the Responses, Canticles, Psalms & Hymnals of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. New and Enlarged Edition. Philadelphia: Lutheran Book Store, 1889.

Seiss, Joseph Augustus. The Evangelical Psalmist: A Collection of Tunes and Hymns for Use in Congregational and Social Worship. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1860.

Simpson, A. B. Hymns and Songs of the Four-Fold Gospel, and the Fullness of Jesus. New York: The Christian Alliance Publishing Company, 1890.

Simpson, A. B., ed. Hymns of the Christian Life. Vol. 2. South Nyack, NY: Christian Alliance Publishing Co., 1897.

Simpson, A. B., and R. Kelso Carter, eds. Hymns of the Christian Life. Vol. 1. New York: Christian Alliance Publishing Co., 1891.

Spurgeon, C. H. Our Own Hymn Book: A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Public, Social and Private Worship. London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1883.

St Ephrem. Hymns on Paradise. Translated by Sebastian Brock. Popular Patristics Series. Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1990.

St Symeon the New Theologian. Divine Eros: Hymns of St Symeon the New Theologian. Edited by John Behr. Translated by Daniel K. Griggs. Vol. 40. Popular Patristics Series. Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2010.

St. Ephrem the Syrian. The Hymns on Faith. Translated by Jeffrey T. Wickes. Vol. 130. The Fathers of the Church. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2015.

Sutcliffe, Joseph. Original Psalms and Hymns. London: Joseph Sutcliffe, 1832.

The Basilian Fathers. St. Basil’s Hymnal: An Extensive Collection of English and Latin Hymns for Church, School and Home. Revised Edition. Chicago, IL: John P. Daleiden Co., Publishers, 1918.

The General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Hymns, Selected and Original, for Public and Private Worship. Second Edition; First Revised Edition. Baltimore: T. Newton Kurtz, 1852.

The Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Synod, The Hauge’s Evangelical Lutheran Synod, and The United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America. The Lutheran Hymnary. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1921.

The Society of Friends. The Friends’ Hymnal: A Collection of Hymns and Tunes for the Public Worship of the Society. Revised Edition. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1908.

Vincent, Charles, D. J. Wood, and John Stainer, eds. The Hymnal Companion to the Book of Common Prayer with Accompanying Tunes. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. London; New York; Bombay; Calcutta: Longmans Green, and Co., 1914.

Watts, Isaac. The Psalms and Hymns of Isaac Watts. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1998.

Watts, James W. Psalm and Story: Inset Hymns in Hebrew Narrative. Vol. 139. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series. Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1992.

Wesley, John. A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists. London: John Haddon & Co., 1874.

Logos Hymnal. 1st edition. Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 1995.

Whitefield, George. A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship. Seventh Edition. London: William Strahan, 1758.

Woodward, G. R., trans. The Most Holy Mother of God: In the Songs of the Eastern Church. London: The Faith Press, 1919.

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Maria

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Wow! 

I had no idea there were so many options. I thought the Logos Hymnal Media Resource was about it.

I am still (relatively) new to Logos. Or rather, I used it about 2 decades ago, and came back about a year ago.

I still have so much catching up to do. 

Thank you, MJ!!!

I am often grateful for your posts here in the forum. I have learned so much from you.

Maria