EDITED BY

ARTHUR W. ROBINSON, B.D.

VICAR OF ALLHALLOWS BARKING

BY THE TOWER

CHURCH MUSIC

BY

A. MADELEY RICHARDSON

M.A., Mus. Doc., F.R.C.O.

ORGANIST AND DIRECTOR OF THE CHOIR OF ST. SAVIOUR'S
COLLEGIATE CHURCH; SOMETIME ORGAN SCHOLAR

OF KEBLE COLLEGE, OXFORD

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON

NEW YORK AND BOMBAY

1904

All rights reserved

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS

The Subject, 1-Object of the book, 2-Importance of the

subject, 3-Knowledge required, 4-The present diffi-

culty, 5, 6-The safe path, 7-Music in worship, 8-

Twofold aspect, 9-The mutability of music, 10-Ancient

music, 11-Modern Oriental music, 12-Our own music,

13-Two principles, 14-The influence of music, 15-Its

application, 16-Concrete cases, 17-The foundation of

our work, 18-Music dependent upon living agents, 19—

Twofold bearing of the subject, 20

CHAPTER II

HISTORICAL SKETCH

A backward glance, 21-The growth of modern music, 22-

An analogy, 23-The scale foundation, 24-The com-

pelling power of music, 25-The necessity for interpreta-

tion, 26-Historical division, 27-Jewish music, its

message for Christians, 28-The manner of its rendering,

29-31-Music in the primitive Church, 32-Allusions in

St. James, Socrates, Pliny, St. Clement of Alexandria,

33-35-Inference, 36-Simplicity of early music, 37-

Advance under Constantine, 38-St. Ambrose, 39-St.

Augustine, 40-Other fathers, 41-Gregory the Great,

42-His Schola Cantorum, 43-Charlemagne, 44-Huc-

bald, 45, 46-Guido, 47-Franco of Cologne, 48-Rise of

the harmonic principle, 49-Its results, 50-Methods of

early contrapuntists, 51, 52-Dufay, Binchois, and Jos-

quin des Pres, 53-Effect of the Reformation on music,

54 The three new schools, 55-The Roman Mass com-

posers, 56, 57-The German school, 58-The English

school, 59-The three stages of development, 60-The

sixteenth century in England, 61-Merbecke, 62-Tallis,

63-Other cathedral composers, 64-A modern problem,

65-The school of Orlando Gibbons, 66-The Restoration

and its results, 67-Humphreys, Wise, Blow, and Purcell,

68-Their successors, 69-A period of decline, 70-The

nineteenth century, 71-A retrospect, 72

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