CHARLES
Church Hymnal Arrangement, Recognition, Lyrics, Ensemble & Scoring
A church music toolkit named for Charles Wesley — sibling to CLARA.
Hymn settings, handbell arrangements, SATB harmonizations, worship chord charts, and whole-hymnal PDF imports. All free.
Sunday Morning
Hymn Setting
Paste lyrics, pick from 117 public domain tunes, generate a fresh SATB or piano setting. Ideal for bulletin insert hymns or custom services.
Choral Accompaniment
Hymn-block, Bach chorale, gospel, shape-note, Taizé, and anthem styles — for SATB choirs and congregational singing.
Vocal Harmonization
Melody to SATB or SAB in seconds. Voice-leading enforced, parallel 5ths/octaves avoided.
Handbells, Worship Band, and Bulk
Handbell Choir
Handbell arrangements with technique markings — LV, damp, shake, martellato. 3, 4, or 5 octave sets. Choose "Handbell Choir" ensemble on the orchestrate page.
Chord Charter
Generate guitar chord sheets with lyrics for the worship band — transpose to any key.
Manuscript Import
Upload a scanned hymnal PDF, auto-detect each hymn by meter, match to tunes, and bulk-generate arrangements as a ZIP.
Lead Sheet
Melody plus chord symbols above the staff — for the worship band or your song charts.
Why "Charles"?
Charles Wesley (1707–1788) wrote roughly six thousand hymns — more than any other English-language hymnodist. "And Can It Be," "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing," "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing," "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling." The name fits a tool built for church musicians.
CHARLES is a sibling to CLARA (Computer-Literate Arrangement by Recognition & Adaptation — named for Clara Schumann). Same engine, different audience.