FOOTNOTES:
[1] Louis Elson, National Music in America, p. 18.
[2] Cf. for further information on this subject: J. H. Dubbs, Early German Hymnology of Pennsylvania; Hausmann, German American Hymnology 1683-1800, in Americana Germanica 1898, Vol. II. No. 3, p. II.
PART I
Beginnings before 1750