Hymn Tunes, Chants, Sentences, Motets, and Anthems. SELECTED AND ARRANGED FROM THE WORKS OF ANCIENT AND MODERN MASTERS, TOGETHER WITH MANY ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS. BY B. F. BAKER AND W. O. PERKINS. BOSTON: BROWN & TAGGARD, 25 & 29 CORNHILL. NEW YORK: SHELDON & CO. PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. BALTIMORE: CUSHINGS & BAILEY. DETROIT: FRANCIS RAYMOND. W. T. BERRY. RALEIGH, N. C.: W. L. POMEROY. CLEVELAND: INGHAM & BRAGG. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by B. F. BAKER, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. In the preparation of their work, the Editors of the CHORAL | Protestant Episcopal Church, the patrons of the Choral Harmony HARMONY have had three objects constantly in view: first, to will find a variety at once pleasing and practical, and to which present music of a high order, appropriate to the worship of all hymns of irregular metre may be easily adapted. Christian denominations; secondly, to combine simplicity with true musical effect; and thirdly, to select music that will harmonize with the sentiment of the various hymns now in common use. A large portion of the music contained in the following pages has been culled with great care from the Oratorios, Masses, Anthems, and Motetts, of the classic writers; and a good variety of justly popular Hymn Tunes already in common use, has been inserted, interspersed with original compositions expressly for this work, which, it is believed, are not less worthy of notice. The variety of music is greater in this work than in any similar one known to the Editors; by which is meant the real variety, not the mere number of tunes, but the diversity of style-the different emotions expressed by the music, from the jubilant Allegro, the deep Maestoso of the Choral, to the soothing Cantabile and the tender Andante. In the department of Anthems, hymns for various occasions, and short pieces for voluntaries before and after service, "The Choral Harmony," it is believed, will be eminently useful and practical, and present features of unusual interest. The hymn tunes for men's voices will be found useful in College Choirs, as well as in the Masonic Institution, and such other meetings, where soprano voices are not available. The Editors have been impressed with the thought that the comparatively advanced musical taste, as well as the greater skill in performance, demands more varied and stronger harmonies than are found in most books of this kind, and should the singer find something more than common-place chords on the Tonic, Sub-dominant and Dominant, it is believed the freshness and strength they afford the more full and satisfactory musical effect will remunerate him for extra effort. The logical structure, the observance of the higher laws of com position with reference to subject and answer, as well in the Solfaing Exercises as in the department of Hymn Tunes, is a new and characteristic feature in this work. Those tunes to which the author's name is not given, with the exception of the old familiar tunes, are compositions or arrangements by the senior Editor, and on which a copyright is secured. The Elementary portion of this work has received much care and consideration. It will be found a truthful deduction from the best specimens of musical composition, full and clear, with appropriate exercises illustrative of the principles and rules of musical notation in their most practical and logical order. With these remarks the Editors place their book before the Public, trusting and believing that the more and the longer "The Choral Harmony" is used, the more its various excellencies will be In the department of Chants, in addition to the service of the felt and acknowledged. |