Gems of Exquisite Beauty How Hymnody Carried Classical Music to America stats and ocean processes

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Gems of Exquisite Beauty How Hymnody Carried Classical Music to America stats and ocean processesIn the decades leading up to the Civil War, most Americans probably encountered European classical music primarily through hymn tunes. Hymnody was the most popular and commercially successful genre of the antebellum period in the United States, and the unquenchable thirst for new tunes to sing led to a phenomenon largely forgotten today: in their search for fresh material, editors lifted hundreds of tunes from the works of major classical composers to