Excerpt from Congregational Church-Music: With 150 Psalms and Hymns From the Collection of the General Association of Connecticut
This collection contains a large number - perhaps almost the $110l those familiar psalms and hymns which are commonly used in a congregation to express an act of united worship. They are printed thus, in a separate form, not with a view of superseding, in any measure, the book from which they are taken, but rather of guiding and assisting in the use of it.
The tunes have been selected, not for their intrinsic merit or fitness for congregational use, but because they are the tunes which are actually known, and which are constantly used by the Churches at social meetings, and wherever else the services of a trained choir are dispensed with. Care has been taken not to separate any psalm or hymn from a tune with which it has become associated by It is hoped, on the contrary, that this book will be useful in confirming and establishing such associations. The compiler is under large obligations to composers and proprietors of copyright tunes for favors which are properly acknowledged in the course of the book.
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