id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 21722 Bridges, Robert A Practical Discourse on Some Principles of Hymn-Singing .txt text/plain 13703 602 69 hymns are that part of the Church music in which it is most desirable usual, proper, or possible to express by congregational singing of hymns. Of what music is our hymn-book to be constructed, which shall be give some account of the sources from which the music of such a hymn-book Clark must be regarded as the inventor of the modern English hymn-tune, Comparing a modern hymn-tune in this style with some fine setting of an hymn-words as the musical direction. to banish from our hymn-books all the tunes which we know to have a practice in modern books to put marks of musical expression to the words were to be found in _Hymns Ancient & Modern_; but by the time that the words and music of hymns, it will be found to be heavily in favour of words, the right to the music of each hymn: in the latter column will be ./cache/21722.txt ./txt/21722.txt