| Notes: | Cut-page edition.
335 hymns without music (indicating title or theme, collection or origin, tune number, author)--p. [1-114] ; 116 numbered tunes [close score, cut at head of page] (captioned for title, meter, tune number, source, composer or arranger)--p [1-116].
Includes indexes : subjects of hymns--p. ix ; of first lines ...--p. x-xiii ; of authors and translators--p. xiv-xv ; Alphabetical ... of tunes--p. xvi ; Metrical ... of tunes--p. xviii ; of service elements--p. 2-3.
Hymn subjects arranged [numbered section headers] : I. The One in All (no. 1-30) ; II. Worship (no. 31-74) ; III. Duty (no. 75-104) ; IV. Love and service (no. 105-157) ; V. Trust (no. 158-217) ; VI. Blessedness (no. 218-266) ; The Good to Be (no. 267-295) ; VII. Seasons, festivals, anniversaries (no. 296-335).
The service book [not bifurcated, separate title leaf--p. [1]] : Index of service elements--p. 2-3 (subjects headed separately in text and running headers) ; Opening services [V sections]--p. 5-9 ; Choral responses [XIV] (occasional tunes in close score)--p. 10-23 ; Thanksgivings [III]--p. 25-28 ; Prayers [XXXII]--p. 30-41 ; Benedictions [VIII]--p. 42 ; Choral sentences [III calls to worship, IV responses after prayer, II Our Fathers with benediction, V Glorias, III Hallelujahs, V Amens] (all with tunes in close score)--p. 43-47.
Psalm excerpts : Ps. 95--p.xvii ; Ps. 100, 89--p. [114] of text for hymns.
"'Unity Hymns and Chorals' published thirty years ago .... [O]f its ... [335] hymns, ... [148] are new to this revision, and ... [73] of its ... [115] tunes. The 'Opening Services,' six of the fourteen 'Choral Responses,' the 'Thanksgiving,' the 'Prayers,' the 'Benedictions,' and many of the 'Choral Sentences,' are also new to it" ; "The cut-leaf feature is retained" [discussion]"--Pref. p. v-vi (signed : William C. Gannett, Frederick L. Hosmer, Editors. December 31, 1910).
"The Hymns--... reflect ... feelings underlying ... Liberal Faith ... free communion between man and man ... and ... Father-Soul .... More ... of Nature, ... 'poems' rather than 'hymns'...." ; "... singers of the rising faith ... kindred writers,--Whittier, Samuel Longfellow, Samuel Johnson, John Chadwick ..." ; "Many ... hymns are changed .... James Martineau has stated ... this view of the ethics of hymn-alteration [in preface to Hymns of praise]" ; "The Service Elements--...In the 'Opening Services' and the 'Prayers' many phrases ... Martineau's, whose 'Ten Services' and 'Home Prayers' ... so rich"--Pref. p. v-vi.
[Authors acknowledged for hymns, also publishers, including] "... the Houghton Mifflin Company, who ... count it a privilege to spread far and wide the Gospel of Whittier [et al.] ...."--Pref. p. v-vi.
"[Acknowledgment to] Charles E. Van Laer and Miss Mary L. Young .... of Rochester ...; the latter [for] ... selections of tunes ... and in reading proof; the former, the musical editor of the book ... contributions of his own ... 'Wings of the Morning' (114); the second chant 'Our Father' (page 45); ... Choral Responses X, XII, XIII, XIV"--Pref. p. v-vi.
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