Hymns of the Kingdom

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Excerpt from Hymns of the Kingdom: Student Christian Movement Edition, Being the English Section of a Students' Hymnal A word may here be offered to the ordinary boy or man who, taking up the melody edition, With no technical knowledge of music, desnes to join in the singing of a favourite hymn to an unfamiliar tune. Of course, his first need Will be to follow some one person who is capable of singing or playing the little-known tune fiom beginning to end Without breaking down, a leader Who can ieach the goal and can safely be followed. There are nearly always leaders present. They do not always know that they aie leaders, but it is fairly easy to pick them out and follow them Without letting them know. His second need is the simple pictuie before his own eyes of the particular melody which is being sung. His third need is to listen and loolr at one and the same moment. He Will then find his ear and. Eye co-ielating their experiences. He may well Imagine how at sea' he will be during the first verse, but he Will not be more at sea for having the melody in its most elementary form in front of him. Befoie five verses me out he will have found that every musical phrase included in a slur thus: f - '¿ - 'fi corresponds (speaking generally) with every veibal phrase or line of poetry as he would naturally speak it. He Will probably also have noticed vaguely that as the energy of the line of melody iises, the curve of the notes rises also. He Will soon be interested in these curves. Befoie he has used the book (sunday by Sunday, or day by day), for a year or so, he Will find that he is slowly but surely becoming a melody-reader. He should always watch the line of melody as it is being played over. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.