The Saints' Harmony: A Selection of Music from About Three Hundred Different Composers, Including About Five Hundred Tunes Not Before Published in America in America. Nearly Four Hundred Tunes Not Before Published in America. Nearly Four Hundred of Them Composed Especially for This Work. Edited by Mark H. Forscutt, Professor of Music. 1889. Also the Saints' Harp, A Collection of Hymns and Spiritual Songs For Public and Private Devotion
Lamoni, IA: The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, [1889]. First combined edition. Leather bound. 15; 565; [346]pp. Both titles bound in one volume. Quarto [27 cm] 1/4 black leather with black cloth over boards, and the title stamped in gilt on the front board. Binding rough. Private library bookplate of front pastedown (Lamoni, Iowa). Stitching visible in the inside margins. Notations in pencil on the verso of p. 15. Very occasional minor markings to the pages. *** Saints' Harmony missing p. 1/2. First page and p. with hymns #653-#658 of Saints' Harp detached, but present. A number of pages detached at the head and/or the foot, but still holding. Flake 7053. Fair. Item #70476
"Combined so that tunes could be matched from 'Saints' harmony' to words in 'Saints' harp.'" - Flake
Mark Hill Forscutt (1834-1903) was an English hymn writer and a leader in a few denominations of the Latter-day Saint Movement. He was a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, however he broke with that movement for numerous reasons, one of which was the practice of plural marriage. He then went on to serve in leadership positions in the Morrisite sect, and ultimately in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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