god what is WITH 19th century editors shitting on their own objects??? was the editing process truly that traumatic?? christ, take a breather.
“This copy of the Old Hundredth is not inserted here with the expectation that it will be used as a church tune, but rather as a historical curiosity. It may also have a tendency to check the cavillings of those who are ever complaining in alterations of old tunes; for who among them will wish to have this arrangement of the Old Hundredth again restored? (Lowell Mason and George James Webb, National Psalmist, 1848).
And what did perfectly beautiful sixteenth-century counterpoint ever do to hurt you two???
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