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The conclusions reached in this work will allow scholars, hymnologists, and hymn singers to explore the social and musicological influences on hymn tune writing, how long it took for texts to acquire a fixed tune, how tastes in hymn tunes change ever so slowly, and how many delightful tunes found in the core repertory of the 19th century have been dropped from today's repertoire.

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This carefully researched study offers a fascinating look at tunes officially sanctioned for use by the Methodists during a seventy-year period in the nineteenth century...This is by any measure a most impressive piece of musicological scholarship...We are indebted to Fred Graham's meticulous analysis and patient culling of many sources for his proposal of the core repertory. Doxology ...recommended...Though Graham's focus was the hymn tunes of the Methodist Episcopal Church, this book provides insight into the history and development of hymn tunes and hymn singing in the United States during the nineteenth century. Music Reference Services Quarterly, 2005 (vol 9, no 3)

This carefully researched study offers a fascinating look at tunes officially sanctioned for use by the Methodists during a seventy-year period in the nineteenth century....This is by any measure a most impressive piece of musicological scholarship....We are indebted to Fred Graham's meticulous analysis and patient culling of many sources for his proposal of the core repertory. * Doxology * ...recommended....Though Graham's focus was the hymn tunes of the Methodist Episcopal Church, this book provides insight into the history and development of hymn tunes and hymn singing in the United States during the nineteenth century. * Music Reference Services Quarterly, 2005 (vol 9, no 3) *

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Fred Kimball Graham is Assistant Professor of Church Music, University Organist, and Director of Basic Degree Studies, at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto.

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