Editing Millennial Praises (section)

== Adaptation to music ==
About the time of the publication of ''Millennial Praises'', the Shakers began to record song melodies using different systems. The "letteral notations" for adaptation of the hymns to music were slowly developed over the next few decades. There were debates as to which system was the best to achieve uniformity among all the Shaker villages. They developed a "tone-ometer" to set a consistent pitch for the songs and a "mode-ometer" to set the tempo. In 1843 [[Isaac N. Youngs]] published his instruction manual, ''A Short Abridgement of the Rules of Music''. In 1847 Russell Haskell published his instruction manual, ''The Musical Expositor''.{{sfn|Opdahl|2004|page=xxiv}} The first hymn book published with musical notation, using many of the ''Millennial Praises'' hymns, was produced in 1852 by Henry Blinn under the title, ''A Sacred Repository of Hymns''.{{sfn|Chase|1992|page=205}}