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Sat, 02/10/2024 - 00:21 — Haruo

I was looking at pre-Civil War tunes for "Amazing Grace", and was a bit surprised to see BHTB1868 in the mix. 1868 is after the Civil War, not before it. But the hymnal authority gives the publication date as 1857. Should this perhaps be renamed BHTB1857?


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Mon, 02/12/2024 - 09:07 — dianneshapiro

The DNAH indexers indexed the 1868 publication. We had access to the 1858 (1857 copyright date) publication instead of the 1868 publication, As far as we can tell 1868 is a republication of the original hymnal copyrighted in 1857. There is not an easy way to change the hymnal id. Basically a new hymnal would need to be added. It is much easier to edit the publication date of the hymnal we're working with.

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