THE PSALTER AND CANTICLES IN THE MORNING AND EVENING SERVICE OF The Church of England: SET AND POINTED TO THE GREGORIAN TONES, BY RICHARD REDHEAD, ORGANIST OF MARGARET CHAPEL, ST. MARYLEBONF. WITH A PREFACE ON ANTIPHONAL CHANTING, BY THE REV. FREDERICK OAKELEY, M.A. FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD, PREBENDARY OF LICHFIELD, AND Præoccupemus faciem Ejus in confessione, et in psalmis jubilemus Ei. Ps. xcv. LONDON: JAMES TOOVEY, 36, ST. JAMES'S STREET. M.DCCC.XLIII. PREFACE. MUSIC is now so generally cultivated, especially in the middle and higher ranks, and it is plainly so great an object to turn, where we can, even the harmless fashions of the time into a religious channel, that no apology shall be made for an attempt which supposes a pretty extensive knowledge, at least of the musical notes, and aims at enlisting it in the service of the Church. The special advantage, then, to which this little book lays claim, in comparison with some other useful publications of the same kind, is that of bringing under the reader's eye the notes of the chant in the same point of view with the words of the Psalm or Canticle which are set to them, so as to enable any one, who can read music, to connect the words with the chant at a glance; whereas, without the presence of the notes, even a quick and experienced ear requires time to possess itself of the tune, and still more of the precise mode in which the words are to be accommodated to it. And thus, it is believed, that persons desirous, and fully capable, of taking part in the psalmody of the Church, often lose half a Psalm, or more, in trying to make out how they are to join in it. So far as the present little work proposes to remedy this serious inconvenience by means of point b |