Contemporary Accounts

The reasons for composers’ and compilers’ placing of the air in the tenor in the eighteenth century, and the subsequent change of fashion, may be followed in the following quotation. […]

From Memoirs of P.P., clerk of this parish, quoted in The Music of the English Parish Church by Nicholas Temperley, Cambridge, 1979. “Now was the long expected time arrived, when the psalms of

Fuguing tunes often received criticism, such as that from J. I. Cobbin in 1830: “He [the writer] feels satisfied that those catching passages, generally miscalled fugues, and those repeating divisions of lines

(London: William Clowes & Sons), 1894 by S. Baring-Gould We have now dethroned the Metrical Psalms, but we have hardly gone far enough in the direction of hymnody. We want

John Peck advised in 1837: The leader should not choose a tune which requires the repetition of some of the words, unless he wish to give emphasis to these particular

http://www.apuritansmind.com/puritanworship/RomaineWilliamExclusivePsalmody.htm There is another thing relating to the Psalms, I cannot call it an abuse: for it is a total neglect of them. They are quite rejected in many congregations,

A Country Parson: James Woodforde’s Diary, 1759-1802,Oxford University Press, 1985 by Alan Seymour According to the blurb inside the dust jacket:First published between 1924 and 1931, the diary of Parson

But, sir, if many acts of indiscretion are committed by the organist and his one or two friends, what shall we say of an assembly of men and boys or

by Karl Moritz (London: Cassell and Company, 1886) On to Nettlebed: a perfect village I walked a little way out of the village, where, at some distance, I saw several people

by John Antes La Trobe At the appointed time they commence. The first specimen he has of his choir is perhaps ushered in by a clarinet, which, though rather a

The Diary of William Holland, A Somerset Parson, 1799-1818(Over Stowey, Somerset) 1800Sun 23 FebThe Church was full this evening, some strangers with instruments of various kinds among the Singers. Poor

Francis W.Galpin In Musical News, July 8 1883, pp31-32, and July 15, 1883, pp.56-58. It is only at the church of Winterboume Abbas, a mile further up tbe valley, that a

Originally published in The Connoisseur, No. 134, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1756. Delicta majorum immeritus lues,Romane, donec templa refecerisÆdesque labentes Deorum, etFœda nigro simulacra fumo.The tott’ring tower, and mould’ring walls repair,And fill

Firle, near Lewes, Sussex, 30th July 1832 At this church at Firle, which is in its itself and its surrounding trees a most beautiful thing, … there was not a

by Charles Burney Lovers of mere harmony might receive great pleasure from Metrical Psalmody, in parts, devoid as it is of musical measure, and syllabic quantity, if it were well