Excerpt from A Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes: Comprising the Best Compositions in General Use, and Including Many by Eminent English and Foreign Musicians, Which Are Now, for the First Time, Published in This Country, Harmonized for Four Voices, With an Arrangement for the Organ and PianoforteON the completion of The People's Music Book, we wish to add a few words in explana tion of the design of the work, and the principle and object which we have pursued in carry ing it into effect. The design of the publisher, as stated in his original announcement, was, to produce a work which should meet the growing demand for music among all classes of the community.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.