Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from School Hymns, With Tunes: A Book of Praise for Teachers and Scholars, Guilds, Christian Bands, Christian Endeavour Societies, Etc
Notwithstanding the great advance which has been effected in recent years to improve the musical portion of the Services of the Church, but little improvement has been made in the quality of the music provided in Sunday School Hymnals. In school hymns an attempt has been made to carry what is best and worthiest in the music of the Church into the School, at the same time bearing in mind that there are many children's hymns which call for a somewhat more advanced and a livelier style of setting than is usual with the more staid and severe verses of the psalms and hymns of the congregation.
The Editor has endeavoured to exclude all that is unworthy and inferior, hoping that the book, in addition to achieving its primary object, may be a means of promoting a correct and refined musical taste among the young people for whom it is intended. With this object he has omitted the crude and inartistic compositions which, in recent years, have been so extensively imported from America to the injury, as many think, of the words to which they have been not unfrequently most unworthily wedded; and although some tunes of a lower musical standard are included, they have found a place only because they have become so associated with the words as to prohibit a disunion.
For the difficult work of selecting the accompanying tunes, the Editor was fortunate in securing the assistance and co-operation of Mr. H. Elliot Button, whose wide experience and musical knowledge have been of the greatest value in such an undertaking. Mr. Button has also revised the harmonies of the tunes selected, and the advantages arising from the association of a musician of so much taste and ability will be apparent to all who examine the book.
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