The Latter-Day Saints' Psalmody. A Collection of Original Tunes Composed and Compiled by the following Committee: G. Careless, E. Beesley, J.J. Daynes, E. Stephens, T.C. Griggs, also Embracing Compositions of Other Well Known Composers, Together with A Number of Old and Familiar Tunes Specially Arranged for this Work, Providing Music for Every Hymn in the L.D.S. Hymn Book
Salt Lake City, UT: The Deseret News Company, 1889. First Edition. Leather bound. [280pp.] Small quarto [25 cm] 3/4 leather with decorative black cloth over boards. Floral endsheets. Contains 330 hymns. Worn. Extremities rubbed. Backstrip faded. Front board a bit bent. Underlying boards exposed along the fore and bottom edges. Text block cracked here and there, and stitching visible in the inside margins of the pages throughout. Page with Hymn No. 192 and No. 193 partially detached. Prior owner's gift inscription on front pastedown. Complete. Good. Item #70289
First edition of the LDS Psalmody. This was the first widely available LDS hymnal that also included the music for the songs (the 1844 Bellows Falls being the first and only other to contain music). Up to this time the Manchester hymnal was the widely used LDS hymnal, all of the hymns in this volume are cross referenced with the Manchester hymnal (with the Manchester page numbers next to the song titles).
Careless & Beesley were both conductors of the Tabernacle Choir (Careless was the first [1869-1880] and Beesley the second [1880-89]). Daynes was the first Tabernacle organist (1867-1900). Stephens was the Director of the Tabernacle Choir (1890-1916). Griggs was a composer. Flake/Draper 1787.
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