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English
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Borrowed Music in Mormon Hymnals
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University of Southern California
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Ph.D. diss.
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"Special interest attaches to the borrowed music in Mormon hymnody. What were the origins of these tunes? What special attraction had they for Mormonism and its social situations? What kind of music are they?
These questions form a topic of musicological and hymnological inquiry. Curiosity about non-Mormon music used in Latter-day Saint group singing poses this research problem: to discover the provenance, nature and use of borrowed tunes in Latter-day Saint hymnals. A full answer to this problem involves some tangential matters also. The social history of Mormonism and its environment must be understood to see the growth of the hymnody and the music-borrowing practices." [author]