POPULAR HYMNS
POETRY LINKED WITH MUSIC. The words and tunes of our English hymns constitute a corpus of poetry-linked-with-music that holds a unique place in our hearts and minds, states the “Listener,” in an article on the broadcasting of church music. There arc poems that are as generally familiar and as widely quoted as the words of popular hymns; there are melodies more frequently whistled than popular hymn-tunes. But the combination of familiar words with familiar music, plus the enormous weight of associations that clings to every well-known hymn, has a peculiar and often overpowering emotional value not only for the members of practically every religious denomination, but for many who belong to none. The human race is particularly sensitive about the things it loves unreasoningly, and there is no surer way of stirring up trouble than public disparagement, of a popular hymn on literary or musical grounds. For hymnology is a sphere in which the ordinaly standards of music and poetry are always liable to be over-ridden by other considerations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1940, Page 2
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171POPULAR HYMNS Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1940, Page 2
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