The Boston Handel And Haydn Society Collection Of Church Music Being A Selection Of The Most Approved Psalm And Hymn Tunes Anthems Sentences Chants C Together With Extracts From The Works Of Haydn Mozart Beethoven And Other Eminent Composers

Author : Lowell Mason
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483978232
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book The Boston Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music written by Lowell Mason and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Boston Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music: Being a Selection of the Most Approved Psalm and Hymn Tunes; Together With Many Beautiful Extracts From the Works of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Other Eminent Modern Composers, Harmonized for Three and Four Voices Melodies, it is evident that a correspondent attention has not been paid to correct Harmony. To remedy this defect, has been the special object ofthe Society, in the present work. Many of the oldest and best psalm tunes, as they were originally composed, were simple melodies; and as the practice of singing metre psalms in public worship was only allowed, not enjoined in England, and was confined to the parish churches, it was not much attended to by the principal masters, who were chiefly engaged in the composition of Cathedral Music. When therefore the other parts were added to these simple melodies, metre psalmody being considered of minor importance, the harmonies were mostly added by inferior composers. And even when the harmonies were original parts of the composition, a beautiful air might be composed without any of that science which was necessary to direct with propriety the subordinate parts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.