Here you will find piano accompaniments for most of the hymns in the Trinity Hymnal (1990). Here are two suggestions on how these accompaniments can be used effectively:

1. You can read the text of a hymn while listening to the musical accompaniment, as a part of private worship or as an aid to memorizing the text;
2. A family, or other group of believers, can sing together some of the great hymns even though lacking the resources needed for musical accompaniment. It is hoped that many will come to realize the deep satisfaction of singing praise to God as a part of social gatherings in the home.

The accompaniments are unadorned in order that the focus might be on the texts. For the same reason the accompaniments are unhurried. It is our conviction that in many hymn-singing churches, the accompaniments are played so fast that the congregation struggles just to sing the words, leaving little time for even momentary reflection on the meaning of the texts. Without that contemplation of the text, congregational singing, in our judgment, has lost its justification for inclusion in worship.

A number of the accompaniments end with an "Amen." The tradition is that any hymn in which the Trinity is mentioned in a significant way, should end with an "Amen." "Holy, Holy, Holy," and "Now Thank We All Our God" are two examples. When the accompaniment for a hymn is to include an "Amen," you will hear a low-note after the final chord is sounded.

As a result of the renovation of NeuSong.com, the search process for accompaniments is now more user-friendly, and much faster. In the listing of the accompaniments, we have included the name of the hymntune; that is, the name by which the music of the hymn is known to musicians. It is now possible to search the collection by hymntune name. For example, for the majestic hymn, "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past," the hymntune that is almost always used is known as St. Anne. If you choose to search the accompaniments collection by hymntune and you type St. Anne in the Search by Hymntune box, you will immediately see the two hymns in the Trinity Hymnal that use this hymntune, one of which is “Our God, Our Help in Ages Past."

Here is one advantage of being able to search the collection by hymntune name. Suppose you find in another hymnal the hymn “God Calling Yet," which is not in the Trinity Hymnal. You will probably see, for this hymn, the hymntune name, probably, Federal Street. If you search our collection of accompaniments by that hymntune, you will find that it is used three times. Choose any one of them and you will have the desired accompaniment for “God Calling Yet." It might happen that there are more (or, fewer) verses in the accompaniment than in your hymnal, but that is not hard to get around.