Companion to Hymns A. And M. (Old Edition) (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Charles William Alfred Brooke
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365917250
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 174

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Excerpt from Companion to Hymns A. And M. (Old Edition) The proprietors formed themselves into a body of Trustees, and as one dies another is elected into his place. These are assisted by a body of Assessors, the two constituting the Committee of Hymns A. M. The Chairmen of the Committee to date have been: the Rev. Sir W. H. Baker, Bt Vicar of Monkland, d. 1877; the Rev. W. Pulling, Vicar of Eastnor, resigned Nov., 1889, owing to failing health and eyesight; the Rev. G. Crosby White, Vicar of Newland, resigned November, 1904, on account of age the Rev. Canon N. Keymer, Canon Missioner of Southwell. From the commencement the meetings of the Committee have always started with'a recital of the Veni Creator. The success of Hymns A. M. Old Edition may be mainly ascribed to the following causes - (i) The combination of different interests in one book (ii) the happy title (iii) the unreasonable opposition with which its issue was greeted, helping to make it known (iv) the unity it introduced in going from one church to another; (v) it came exactly at the right time, Churchmen being prepared for an improvement in hymnology. SO great was, and has been, its success, that the Committee have been able to do everything but supplant it with what they consider a better book. Once more the union which A. M. Introduced is being threatened by a multiplicity Of hymn books, the Com pilers themselves starting to lead the way, but if A. M. Is to be supplanted it is likely to be by an altogether different book. One must not, too, omit the influence the book has had on Nonconformist singing. Dr. Julian says that within a dozen years of its publication not twenty hymns from it were sung in thousands of churches and chapels, where at the same time not twenty Of its tunes were unused. 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.