Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sacred Harmony, Vol. 1: For the Use of St. George's Church Edinburgh, Being a Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes With an Accompaniment for the Organ or Piano Forte
We may say, with confidence, that it has never appeared in a tolerable shape till now. Mr. Smith of Paisley has set it for us with his usual felicity - contriving to hide, if not to cure its im perfections, and retaining, at the same time, all its original beauty, and even increasing, particularly by the natural C in the last line, its power and plaintiveness of expression.
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