Excerpt from Original Hymn Tunes, Chants, Sentences, and Motets

This little Work, the fruit cf hours of leisure and recreation, is respectfully dedicated to the salem oratorio society. An Association of Amateurs, which, successfully maintaining the merited musical reputation of that city, has, by its mastery and accurate rendering of the most difficult and best Works of the great authors, within the brief period of a half-dozen years, attained a conspicuous rank among the most eminent of kindred organizations. May the society and its good name be permanent.

Should these unpretending attempts meet the push of criticism, it may be tempered by the consideration that their author, not a musician by education, has acquired his limited knowledge of the art, by personal study, reading, and practice, unaided by professional instruction. An earnest lover of sacred music, he has made that department more a specialty, and hopes that his small contribution may aid in the praise-services of God, at both Church and Home.

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