REVISED:
1881 Methodist Episcopal is online....

http://www.archive.org/details/himnariodelaigl00churgoog

AMEN TO THIS REQUEST. I work in a school with 99.9% Hispanic population. I would love for them to be able to sing old hymns with their grandparents, but it seems that all of the Spanish hymnals I come across are thoroughly modernized al la Gather. (Gatherized. Gathericized. Gatherated. Can that be a verb? It would indicated the necessity for a Gatherectomy.)

bgeorge77,

Is "Gathstrated" descriptive?

Same here, Noel: no luck. For what it's worth, the Spanish Hymnal came out in 1961, consisting of hymns translated from English, and a more recent edition ("El Himnario") appeared in 1998. Portions of that can be seen on Google Books. A 1999 Presbyterian hymnal appears to be its cousin.

Some other Spanish hymnals are on-line: e.g.
1881 Methodist

There are several folksong books which contain religious songs:

Cantos del la Montana are from the Santander province of Spain.
http://books.google.com/books?id=r061AAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA74&dq=cantos+santander+montana&as_brr=1&client=firefox-a&cd=1#v=onepage&q=religiosos&f=false

The Salmantine one covers Salamanca.
http://books.google.com/books?id=iRtYAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA141&dq=cantos+religiosos+folk-lore&lr=&as_brr=1&cd=2#v=onepage&q=&f=false

There's also one of Castilian folksongs from Burgos.
http://books.google.com/books?id=4yehAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA21&dq=cantos+religiosos&lr=&as_brr=1&cd=98#v=onepage&q=&f=false

I don't think these will help much if you have Mexican or Latin-American or American Hispanic folks to deal with.

A provisional hymnal for the Episcopal Church in Puerto Rico can be found in PDF format HERE.

When I was a child, I played some services for a Spanish-speaking congregation of Methodists. I can't locate the hymnal they used, but this one looks promising.

El Himnario was if I remember a joint project of Episcopalians and Presbyterians and a few other groups. It is worth buying from Church Publishing.

Although it is no longer available for purchase, the Episcopal Church produced a small collection of hymns in Spanish called "Albricias". There were a number of hymns in that collection that I thought were well worth using. I wish I still had my copy.

Here's the bio of a sacred music Mexican composer from the early 20th century. I suspect that if you poke around with the links and search terms, or move over to Spanish, you'd find a lot of stuff that's relevant. They mention a "Nacionalismo sacro" movement associated with the old Motu, and the guy's magazine Schola Cantorum seems to have been a lot like the old CMAA ones. He was busy promoting chant and polyphony, as well as new sacred music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Bernal_Jiménez

More about the guy, on a Spanish language blog:
http://lamusicasacra.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/“como-un-eco-lejano…”-parte-i/

Wow. In a burst of good sense, I checked the online catalog for university libraries in my state. (Which doesn't have a terribly large Hispanic population, historically.)

There are tons and tons of Catholic Spanish hymnbooks back in the stacks. Tons. Tons and tons and tons. A lot of them come from way back, and then there's another chunk from the forties and fifties. Most of these seem to be indigenous and translated Latin hymns, not translations of English-language hymns. Obviously it's difficult to figure out overlap from stuff that's not online; but given how various the dedications of the hymnals are, I sorta doubt there's much of a sameness.

Of course, a good chunk of them are Giant Marian Hymnbooks of Doom and reside at the Marian Library at the University of Dayton, but there are tons of them at pretty much every other Catholic university in the state, also. One forgets that Catholic universities used to have at least a minor focus on training people for the foreign missions.

So... maybe we need a CMAA public domain Parish Hymnbook of good old Spanish hymns. We certainly seem to have the materials, even though they're not online.

Maureen,

unless my grocery store Spanish is wrong, "Mes Lirica" means lyrical Month, not lyrical Mass. It's a companion book with songs for a month-long devotion to the BVM.

It does have some cool songs, though. Thanks for that!

Have you seen Flor Y Canto? Popular at churches in my local area.

http://www.ocp.org/products/10911

Mandee

Flor y Canto is awful; don't use it. Almost all of the Mass settings it provides do not contain the correct words as indicated in the Misal Romano. Probably about 85% of the Eucharistic hymns that it provides are heretical or "all about us". It is a syncretistic and modernistic hymnal.

El Himnario, mentioned above, looks really great at first, until you start searching for Communion meditation hymns, only to find very few. When you have an ecumenical hymnal produced by folks who don't believe in the Real Presence, there isn't much to sing about at communion time. Some of them don't even regularly celebrate communion, and why sing about crackers and grape juice anyhow?

If I had the time I would do more research on this matter, as there is a dire need for a solid Spanish resource. What's more, the need is such that we need to have a good Spanish hymnal that can be used by English-speaking organists with some ease. What we encounter in most hispanic Masses in this country is extremely impoverished, if not heretical, music accompanied by out-of-tune guitars, electronic keyboards (often amplified to an uncomfortable level), etc.

Be very careful about any Spanish music resource you purchase; have a knowledgeable and orthodox Spanish-speaker examine it carefully first (preferably someone educated in theology and able to pick up on subleties).

bjerabek: "El Himnario ... ecumenical hymnal ... communion time"

Maybe where it is in use there is an opportunity to introduce the Graduale Simplex
for Communion time?

If I were working in a bilingual English/Spanish congregation, I would consider GIA's new(ish) Oramos Cantando.

http://www.giamusic.com/sacred_music/hymnals_new_oramoscantando.cfm

I would second the mention of the St. Michaels hymnal. I wd say that there are about 40 sp hymns joined with tradional church tunes. And the "folk" hymns are of the better quality. Actually there are some rather beautiful old sp hymns such as "cantate al amour".

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YES! Gah.

it also contains most of the folky/ranchy/popy music that are in our current OCP hymnals. Which is what we're sort of trying to move away from.

1. Don't do them.
2. Some of them are perfectly fine if you approach them with a more solemn intention.

With all these "Better" hymnals out there (especially when it comes to spanish), it makes me wonder why OCP is just about the most common.

1. Price.
2. Marketing.
3. Habit.

My experience with GIA is that they will send sample copies if you are contemplating a bulk order. (Also, if you go to an event where they have a table/booth, they give them out like candy. So it shouldn't be difficult to get them to mail one to you.)

I don't know anything about their accompaniments.