The book also includes a number of folk hymns, such as "Promised Land," "Idumea," and "Golden Hill."
It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named "At the Cross", not to "New Britain".
The harmonies in their folk hymns and camp meeting songs stand alone as distinct and often very catchy melodies.
Pennsylvania spirituals are a well-known kind of folk hymn, most of which date to the early 19th century.
Also around this time, Italian flagellants developed the Italian folk hymns known as spiritual laude.
Even with this division, the entire work was actually a set of variations on a single melody-a folk hymn sung to Liszt by a gondolier in Venice in the late 1830s.
The theme of the minuet was, again, a variant of the gondolier's folk hymn, thus becoming another example of thematic transformation.
It is often erroneously thought of as a folk hymn or as being in the Public Domain.
What Wondrous Love Is This is a Christian folk hymn, sometimes described as a "white spiritual", from the American South.
Holy Manna is the hymn tune originally written for "Brethren, We Have Met Together", which is one of the oldest published American folk hymns.