 These songs were considered in a 1964 musicological publication, with a selection of the songs published in 2000 as "Songs of Tuvalu" together with two CDs of the recorded songs.The influence of the Samoan missionaries sent to Tuvalu by the London Missionary Society from the 1860s resulted in the suppression of songs about the traditional religions or magic, with the Samoan missionaries also influencing the development of the Tuvaluan language.The missionaries introduced church hymns and European song structures and melodies started to influence Tuvaluan music.