SHEET MUSIC
In 2006 I published my musical setting of A Heartland Liturgy and since then my liturgical compositions and hymn arrangements have been sung by conferences, choirs, and congregations around the world. I’ve also had my music included in various hymnals, including the songs “By Grace We Have Been Saved” and “For Such A Time As This” which appear in newest Lutheran hymnal All Creation Sings. In 2021 I published my first book Lost Songs of the Suomi Synod containing 28 compositions from Finnish-American Lutheran history. Please consider using my music with your choir, band, or congregation!
Visit my PayHip Store to download sheet music resources for A Heartland Liturgy, my 2025 arrangement of the Nicene Creed, my various arrangements of hymns by Martin Luther, and other songs for assembly singing.
sheet music downloads at PayHip
Visit my PayHip download page for my sheet music. Included are piano scores, lead sheets, guitar chords, lyric TXT files, and congregational melody line TIFF files for importing into paper bulletins and projection slides.
Lost Songs of the Suomi Synod
On September 7, 2021 I released my first book Lost Songs of the Suomi Synod.
This ethnomusicological memoir collects 28 songs from the Finnish-American Lutheran tradition. Notated and translated arrangements are included, along with historical and musical commentary.
I have unearthed obscure contributions from such luminaries as Elias Lönnrot (collector of the Kalevala), Finland’s national poet J. L. Runeberg, Jean Sibelius (composer of Finlandia), and Martin Luther. Some of these songs have not been heard or sung in North America for a century, and some have never before appeared in English.
In 2022 the book was awarded the Frederick Buechner Prize for Writing at Luther Seminary.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING
for the songs of Jonathan Rundman
Organizations, conventions, and church groups around the world have utilized Jonathan Rundman's songs to enhance their assemblies! To use the music with your congregation or gathering, you need a license.
CHURCHES MAY LICENSE JONATHAN'S SONGS THROUGH CCLI
If you are a church organization or congregation and you regularly license music through Christian Copyright Licensing International, you may now license Jonathan's songs and report their usage via CCLI. And don't forget to report your usage of Jonathan's music so he can be fairly credited and paid!
If you're NOT a church, OR you are a church that does not license music with CCLI you may still license Jonathan's music directly from him...read below:
WHY DO I NEED A LICENSE?
Because songs are property. Copyright is, naturally enough, the Right to Copy music. Only the publisher has that right. To legally make copies yourself, you purchase a license. A license is simply permission to use the songs (which, remember, are property of the publisher) as you wish.
PURCHASE A LICENSE
This webpage allows you to purchase a license to use songs written and owned by Jonathan Rundman. You may conveniently PURCHASE ONLINE WITH A CREDIT CARD via PayPal, below. (To PURCHASE LICENSES BY CHECK the old fashioned way email Jonathan at [email protected] or call 612-382-5299 for details, and to receive an address to snail-mail the check.)
ANNUAL LICENSE to use any and all Jonathan Rundman songs anytime, as many copies as needed, for ONE YEAR.
cost: $50/year
SINGLE-USE, ONE-SONG LICENSE to use ONE Jonathan Rundman song in a disposable booklet, power point slide, or church bulletin.
cost: $10
ONGOING ONE-SONG LICENSE to use ONE Jonathan Rundman song in a songbook, power point slide, or recurring church bulletin.
cost: $20/year
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
IF I BUY JONATHAN RUNDMAN'S SHEET MUSIC DO I STILL NEED TO PURCHASE A LICENSE?
If you purchase Jonathan’s sheet music you are allowed to make one paper copy of each song for personal use. If you intend to make multiple copies for band rehearsal, or song sheets, or church bulletin inserts, or power point projection, or whatever, you MUST purchase a license.
DO THESE LICENSES ALLOW FOR THE RECORDING OF JONATHAN RUNDMAN'S SONGS?
No, with a few exceptions. Recordings may be made for the purpose of bringing audio or video recordings of church services to the homebound, or for not-for-sale archiving of church services, or for church service online and/or radio broadcasts.
MAY I HAVE PERMISSION TO RECORD ONE OF JONATHAN RUNDMAN'S SONGS FOR MY OWN ALBUM?
Please email [email protected] or call 612-382-5299 for information on how to legally cover a Jonathan Rundman song on your own album/recording project.
DO THESE LICENSES APPLY ONLY TO JONATHAN RUNDMAN'S SONGS THAT AVAILABLE IN SHEET-MUSIC FORM (SUCH AS A HEARTLAND LITURGY OR LOST SONGS OF THE SUOMI SYNOD)?
No. You may purchase a license to use any of the songs Jonathan Rundman has written throughout his entire career, sheet music or not!
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Jonathan Rundman c/o
Salt Lady Records / Salt Lady Music (ASCAP)
[email protected]
612-382-5299