Music in the Western Church

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Excerpt from Music in the Western Church: A Lecture on the History of Psalmody, Illustrated With Examples of the Music of the Various PeriodsThe Rev. Henry Allon's lecture, Music in relation to Church life, given some years ago on behalf of the London Young Men's Christian Association, is the nearest approach to such a history that the Author remembers to have seen. Mr. Allon's lecture, however, is not only incomplete but misleading, little or no mention is made of Descant, while the Gregorian Tones are presented with modern harmonies, whereas the merest tyro in musical history must know these Tones were always sung in unison (and are to this day in the Roman Catholic Church, except on special occasions), the employment of harmony being but of recent date. Anachronisms like this must, of course, greatly militate against the historical value of any work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.