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Thread #111692   Message #2356387
Posted By: Jack Campin
03-Jun-08 - 02:17 PM
Thread Name: USA hymn book query
Subject: RE: USA hymn book query
That Hungarian book lists published sources for almost every OTHER tune it includes, but those two are just "Walesi nepenek". Which suggests they got it direct and orally.

Most good hymnbooks have humungous bibliographies. Tunes were passed around Protestant Europe in print for hundreds of years and it's not usually difficult to trace routes of transmission.