Hymnal Lutheran Service Book App - Hymnal Lutheran Service Book for iPad & Reviews

The Lutheran Service Book (2006), Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod

A collection of over 260 of your favorite hymns with full lyrics, full music scores and full organ accompaniment soundtracks. Perfect for the church musician or when you need accompaniment for singing or just for you to enjoy the beautiful organ music.

This app is for you if:
- you are a church musician and need to have the full music score and words for the hymns quickly, or
- you need full organ accompaniment for singing either alone or for a congregation, or
- you want to use your iPad as a hymnal during practice or performance, or
- you like to sing but forgot the words to the hymns, or
- you enjoy listening to the many favorite hymns, or
- you just want to have a useful hymnal on your iPad

The music scores and lyrics are professionally typeset (not just scanned) with full 4-part harmony (not just the melody line). Every page is sharp and clear - just like what you would expect on a printed page.

The user interface has a clean look, not cluttered or distracted with fancy, but unnecessary, graphics, and it is extremely easy to use. You can quickly and easily find the hymn that you want using one of several ways: Simple hymn selection by title, first line, or hymn number using the alphabetical index or number index. You can also search for a hymn by any word in its title or first line, or search by the hymn number.

The organ recordings are professionally done and are perfect for use as accompaniment during sing-alongs, or just for you to sit back and enjoy the music. The hymns are performed by a 30+ year experience church organist and pianist.

Features:
- High resolution, professionally typeset music score and lyric for all of the hymns
- Beautiful organ soundtracks for all of the hymns for you to enjoy and sing-along, or for congregational singing
- All music scores have full 4-part harmony - not just the melody line
- All music scores and soundtracks are stored directly on your iPad so there's no waiting to download from the internet
- Easy selection of songs by title or first line from alphabetical listing
- Easy selection of songs using hymn numbers from the Lutheran Service Book (2006), Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
- Easy word or number search capability for song titles, first line, or song number
- Create and manage your own bookmarks of hymns
- Some hymns with optional modulated last verse
- There are hymns in this collection that are not in the printed hymnal
- The app opens up immediately to the last opened hymn
- Fast page turn with a single touch on the screen for multi-page songs
- No Internet connection is required to view or listen to any of the songs.
- All of the hymns (including the music, lyric, and audio recording) can legally be used both in public or private without requiring any additional license such as CCLI.

See developer website for the complete list of songs and listen to a sample hymn.
See developer website for other music books.

NOTE: this app is very large because of the 260 audio files, and so it will take about 20 minutes to download and install. Please be patient while it is downloading.

Added several enhanced user interface: larger print and zooming in landscape mode, swipe gesture for next/previous song, next/previous song sequence selectable by title, number or bookmark, and option to disable the sleep timer.