Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from One Hundred Tunes by Dr. Gauntlett With Hymns for the Year: A Supplement to Tune Books in General Use
T was suggested to my mother, two or three years ago, that she should make a selection of some of the Tunes of her late husband, Dr. Gauntlett, with a view to publication. This little volume is the result of the suggestion. It consists of some very well known and popular Tunes, with others published for the first time. They were chosen with the idea of introducing as many varied metres as possible within the limit of a hundred Tunes my mother always indulging the wish to produce, afterwards, a larger collection. But Time, the inevitable, stole on, and the worker was gathered to her rest before even her first cherished task was completed. She had, however, the satisfaction of seeing all the proofs; and the words of the Dies Irae were, strange to say, her last earthly consideration of real interest.
The task of completing and correcting the work has therefore devolved upon me, and I trust I may have succeeded in presenting this little collection of my father's music, in the manner his affectionate helpmeet would have desired.
Church music has been defined as the praise of the Creator by His creatures.
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