The Christian Minstrel: Preface (J.B. Aikin, 1846)


The number of sacred music books has been greatly multiplied within the last few years. Mason's publications alone have furnished the churches with a rich variety of music, arranged and harmonized in a style of unequaled beauty and sublimity, and characterized by a chasteness, simplicity, and facility of expression, and all that is adapted to … Continue reading The Christian Minstrel: Preface (J.B. Aikin, 1846)

Campbell’s Preface to “Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs”


I’m sorry for being so long-gone from HymnalCollector.com.  My wife and I are expecting our first child soon and so my books and the shelves upon which they sat were removed from our house and banished to the garage until such time as the living quarters were rearranged to make room for Baby (sex is … Continue reading Campbell’s Preface to “Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs”