The Parsons Handbook Containing Practical Directions Both for Parsons And Othe
The Parsons Handbook Containing Practical Directions Both for Parsons And Othe
Percy Dearmer
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Meanwhile the people drop away from church because they find the services wearisome. What wonder ? This unvaried use of monotone, with long-drawn Aniens, lengthens the service unduly, unmeaningly, and weakens its light and shade, its impressiveness and intelligibility, making it in every sense ' monotonous. ' As for Mattins and Evensong, the musical part does not begin till the priest says, O Lord, open thou our lips, 1 People are coming to see that the beauty of the Psalms (so marred in most c...hurches) is done full justice to by the ' modest and distinct song ' of the Gregorian tones when properly used. Much so- called Gregorian music that one hears misses the characteristic merits of true chanting, the rules for which are given in the Rev. G. H. Palmer's Psalter (Geo. Bell and Sons). RITUAL AND CEREMONIAL 1S5 and the people's mouths are opened for praise : that which precedes the versicle is a penitential introduc- tion, and the office proper begins with the versicle.^ From this point the office should be sung as far as the Anthem.
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