Worship Song

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Excerpt from Worship Song: With Accompanying TunesTms Edition of 'worship-song' has been prepared in response to urgent requests from a large number, both of individuals and churches, who desired a musical setting to the Hymnal they use and love. The opportunity has been taken to carefully revise the collection of hymns first published in 1884 and enlarged by 8. Supplement in 1894, so as to bring it within the limits necessary to an Edition with tunes, and to adapt it to the requirements of worship in this New Century. Certain hymns have therefore been omitted which experience proved to be of little actual service in public worship. These are chiefly metrical versions of the Psalms and of the Te Deum, also those translations of German Hymns not sufficiently lyrical for singing, as well as many of the hymns contained in 'the Home Sanctuary' section of the earlier editions, only suited for individual use in private, or in the sick chamber. On the other hand about twenty-five hymns, chie¿y of recent production, which appeared to the Editor to be of great beauty, have been inserted in their appropriate places.The principle on which this musical edition of worship-song' has been pre pared has been to set the well-known hymns to their familiar, or, as they used to be called, their proper tunes whilst for the newer hymns, which have never been satisfactorily mated with tunes, new ones have been composed by some of the most gifted tune-writers of the day. In many instances a considerable number of tunes had been written by various writers before the Editor felt that the proper rendering of the words had been attained. An illustration of this may be found in the case of Mr. Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, ' for which some fifteen tunes were composed before satisfactory ones were obtained. So much care has been taken in this respect that the Editor confidently expects that the new tunes will become general favourites. Certain is it that they have all passed and approved themselves to the critical judgment of many competent musicians.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.