Excerpt from Psalter and Canticles
There is a wholesome and wide-spread endeavor to understand more clearly the early Post-Reformation period of our Church"s history, and to conform more generally to its rites and usages. The "Common Service," which stands as the greatest monument in the English language to the influence of this tendency in our Communion, has enriched our services by restoring to them the Psalms and Canticles as prescribed in our early Orders. The present book provides material which may be of assistance to all who desire to conform in their use of these portions of our worship to the practice not only of the same classic period of our history, but also of the Church Universal from most ancient times.
It may not be amiss to present as prefatory to the present volume some of the characteristic features of Ancient Plain Song, and of the Psalm Tones in particular, and a brief mention of their universal use in the Church. The antiquity of the Psalm Tones is so great that no one has succeeded in tracing their exact origin with any degree of certainty. There are three well-defined theories with reference to their primitive sources, two of which ascribe to them Greek and Hebrew derivation respectively, while the third asserts independent genesis in very early Christian times. The most satisfactory of these is probably the one which claims for them more or less direct connection with the earlier forms of the sacred music of the Jews while acknowledging the molding influence of later Greek art and learning. The Christian and Jewish Churches overlapped for a period of nearly forty years, during which time the Jewish Christians still continued to worship in the Temple.
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