Hymnal Project...need help!

[Steven Liu]

I was scouring all the newsgroups trying to find an appropriate place
to post this question... These groups seem to fit the mold.

Our church began in China and about sixty years ago, it published a
Chinese-language hymnal, with most of its hymns culled and translated
from original English sources. Today, the church has spread around the
world, so we've been put to the daunting task of compiling an
English-language version of the hymnal, corresponding to the original
Chinese.

There are 310 hymns in the original Chinese hymnal. Of these, we
tracked down about 250 in the original English. That leaves about 60
which could not be found with the resources we had here. The problem
is, we don't have tune names, author's names, composer's names, or
even the original English lyrics. All we have is the music itself, and
a rough translation into English.

I've been using the index HYMNS AND TUNES, by Katherine Diehl. She has
a section which indexes by solmization (DRMFSLT). I found about 10-20
in this book, but that's about it. I'm close to the Princeton
Theological Seminary's Benson Collection, with about 12,000 hymnals,
but the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack comes to mind.

My question: does anyone out there have tips which I could use to
track down at least some of the remaining hymns? Perhaps another index
which indexes in the same way? Or, if some music expert or hymn expert
is out there and willing to help, I'd love to send you copies of the
hymns in question and see what you can do with them...

Please reply to li...@gandalf.rutgers.edu or l...@pisces.rutgers.edu.

Thanks,
Steve