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Excerpt from The Hymnal, Revised and Enlarged: As Adopted by the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the Year of Our Lord 1892; Including the Morning and Evening Canticles We have to acknowledge that the congregational singing of today is best and heartiest in-other than Episcopal Churches. Surely this is because the music, as well as the words of the hymn, is within the reach of each member of those congregations, which is seldom or never the case in the Episcopal Church. The general introduction of Hymnals with music for the congregation is therefore strongly recommended. Those trained in music will feel confidence and freedom at the sight of the notes, and in fact are helpless without them while those in musical darkness as to notation may catch an occasional glimpse of light. Thus both will be encouraged to join freely in the public worship, and thus only may any real improvement in congregational singing be expected. Alternate tunes, arrangements of other than churchly music, tunes for the choir in which the congregation cannot well join, as well as metronome marks and dynamic signs, have been avoided as much as possible, for all these seem rather to lessen than to add to the directness of choice and simplicity of expression which this book aims to encourage. Open notes have been used throughout the book because of their more churchly appearance. To all musicians, especially those in sympathy with the Church, this greater apparent ecclesiological correctness will seem worth preserving and perpetuating. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

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