Just saw this on the Clarion Ledger:

Southern Baptists on Thursday unveiled a new online digital music tool akin to Apple’s iTunes, which not only offers downloadable Christian music but allows users to custom arrange songs and produce corresponding audio files and sheet music.

Lifeway Christian Resources, the research and publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, introduced at its Nashville headquarters SongMap, a Web-based technology with about 900 downloadable songs that include contemporary, gospel and traditional hymns.

With SongMap, users can transpose keys, change songs’ order of verses, choruses, introductions and transitions, and download their creation and print out sheet music for various instruments.

By Monday, about 100 of the songs will be available to be custom arranged, and Lifeway officials say they’re working on getting the rest online.

Apparently they’ve developed a tool akin to iTunes that allows for downloading of music via the Internet for $1.49 – $1.99 a pop.  But unlike iTunes, you can get the music in the key of your choice, and buy sheet music for the instrument of your choice.  Also, you can re-arrange the music to add/remove bars or verses.  It sounds remarkably sophistocated for what’s typically considered a non-technical group (The Southern Baptists & Lifeway). I might have to download it just to try it out.

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