The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #14353 Message #3305804
Posted By: JohnInKansas
11-Feb-12 - 03:56 AM
Thread Name: Old Hymns?
Subject: RE: Old Hymns?
I haven't searched for Haller Lake, and don't really recall where the hymnal came from. It is possible that we picked it up at a book shop in the Seattle area, although the majority of acquisitions of that kind came from Oklahoma/Texas antique shops.
With a 1939 copyright date, it's likely that even if the church has a stable style, they've probably replaced their hymnals a couple of times.
The church you found is a member of the Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Methodist Church, and others in that conference, with more current hymnals, didn't exhibit the same "no name" character in their books - quite probably published by an "official Conference publisher" - so at least by the time we had a chance to look at some of those hymnals the more typical hymn names were clearly given.
A publisher (or at least a printer) is named in the front matter of the book, and a brief look didn't find them still in business.
I'm not really into researching church music, but that particular feature of this hymnal suggested there might be a tradition that I, and perhaps others, had not been aware of. If it's not known by someone here who wants to inform the rest of us, I probably won't pursue the matter.
John