Manchester Hymnal

[3] A year later, Benjamin C. Elsworth published another hymnal that also plagiarized Emma Smith's preface and used sixty-six hymns from her collection, as well as almost all the ones Rogers had added.

[4] By 1 July 1839, the prophet and Quorum of the Twelve met to compile a new hymnbook, and apparently even weighed the idea of reprinting or adapting Rogers's work.

[5][6] Six months later, charges were brought against Rogers for "compiling an Hymn Book, and selling it as the one selected and published by sister Emma Smith", among other things.

[5][8] Brigham Young may have never heard word of the high council's decision or simply ignored it, and the Quorum of the Twelve proceeded to publish a hymnal compiled by Brigham Young, Parley P. Pratt, and John Taylor that was titled A Collection of Sacred Hymns for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Europe.

Despite previously indicating that he was opposed to printing a new hymnbook outside of Nauvoo and expressing some initial anger over publishing it without his permission, Joseph Smith eventually gave his approval to the work.

[13] In 1889, the LDS Church published a tune book to accompany the Manchester Hymnal titled The Latter-day Saints' Psalmody.

[14][13] About half of the new hymn tunes that were composed for the Psalmody were written by members of the Church Music Committee, which included Evan Stephens, George Careless, Ebenezer Beesley, Joseph J. Daynes, and Thomas C. Griggs.

Many of their Psalmody hymn tunes have a pronounced "instrumental" feel, as if they were more suited for organ performance than choir or congregational singing.