Item Detail
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19828
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5
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14
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English
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What Hymns Early Mormons Sang and How They Sang Them
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BYU Studies
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2008
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47
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no.1
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95-118
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Using available minutes of LDS Church meetings from 1830-1838, Hicks discusses which hymns were sung most frequently by early Saints during meetings. He also discusses different purposes for singing hymns, which include ministerial farewells, family devotionals, feasts, military marches, funerals, and baptisms. He poses the possibility that hymns may have been sung by one individual to open meetings, or in the manner of "lining out," where the leader sings a line and the congregation repeats. Standard tunes did not always accompany these verses. Gradually these practices diminished as new converts from Europe, with the approval of church leadership, helped institute practices more common to them. These new practices included "regular singing" (where verses were linked to specific tunes), choirs, singing schools, and instrumental accompaniment.
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