Music in the ChurchYoung churchman Company, 1910 - 274 pages |
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Page 52 - Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 54 - It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever...
Page 228 - It is a knowledge easily taught and quickly learned, where there is a good master and an apt scoller. 2. The exercise of singing is delightful to nature, and good to preserve the health of man.
Page 229 - There is not any musicke of instruments whatsoever comparable to that which is made of the voyces of men ; where the voyces are good, and the same well sorted and ordered. 8. The better the voyce is, the meeter it is to honour and serve God therewith; and the voyce of man is chiefly to be employed to that ende. Omms Spiritus laudet Dominum. " Since singing is so good a thing, I wish all men would learn to sing.
Page 68 - I think they began in the last Line of the first going over. This seems to me an intimation and call for me to resign the Praecentor's Place to a better Voice.
Page 54 - Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, beiny arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets...
Page 232 - Bird, and others ; — ordered the composers of his chapel to add symphonies, &c., with instruments to their anthems ; and thereupon established a select number of his private music to play the symphony and ritornello which he had appointed. The old masters...
Page 63 - Set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, before and after morning and evening prayer, and also before and after sermons ; and moreover in private houses, for their godly solace and comfort, laying apart all ungodly songs and ballads, which tend onely to the nourishing of vice, and corrupting of youth.
Page 69 - It has more than twenty times the power of the old slow tunes, each part straining for mastery and victory, the audience entertained and delighted, their minds surpassingly agitated and extremely fluctuated, sometimes declaring for one part, and sometimes for another. Now the solemn bass demands their attention, next the manly tenor; now the lofty counter, now the volatile treble. Now here, now there ; now here again, — O ecstatic ! Rush on, you sons of harmony...