Excerpt from Chapters on Church Music
The present volume is an attempt to treat Church music as considered not only from an artistic, but also from a devotional and a practical point of view.
Church music is a large subject, and one upon which opinions widely differ. If it were always regarded from both a musical and a devotional point of view, there would probably be more agreement on the subject. But this is seldom the case. Many people seem either to hold Church music to be an important branch of the musical art, and nothing more; or to regard it as only a kind of devotional exercise. The existence of two separate theories of Church music (the one purely musical, the other purely devotional) would be sufficient to account for the want of uniformity in the quantity, the quality, and the kind of music used in our churches - even if there were no other causes working to divide men on the subject. Truly there is great variety in our Church music, in the manner of its performance, and in the use that is made of the musical art at different churches. At some churches only the most florid Anglican chants are used; while at others only 'Gregorians' are permitted, or the Canticles are sung to service-music. At some churches hymn-tunes of poor quality are often used; at others the music is always high in character. At some churches the services are rendered musically throughout by a select company of trained choristers; at others only the Canticles and a few hymns are sung by the congregation.
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