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Occasional Papers 3 No6: Hymns Ancient & Modern 1861–2013
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Treasure No 68: When Words Call the Tune
Treasure No 68: When Words Call the Tune by Ian Sharp: An article from Bulletin 233, October 2002 A version of a paper given at the Annual Conference at Leicester. 23 July 2002 here are age-old associations between what John Milton so aptly termed ‘voice and verse’. The hymn is just one of many genres that link words with music, …
Treasure No 64: The English Hymn (review)
Treasure No 64: The English Hymn (review) by Elizabeth Cosnett: An article from Bulletin 214, Winter 1998 The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study, by J R. Watson. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997. xi 4–552 pp. £65.00 (£48.00 to Hymn Society members using special order form with July Bulletin) he publication of this scholarly, thought-provoking and enormously enjoyable book is …
Bulletin 161 Volume 10 No9 September 1984
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Bulletin 158 Volume 10 No6 September 1983
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Treasure No 48: Pastoral Revision of Hymns
Treasure No 48: Pastoral Revision of Hymns by Michael Perry: An article from Bulletin 156, Winter 1983 (This is a shortened and revised version of a lecture given at our 1982 Conference. Mr Perry is rector of Eversley, Hants., and a member of the words committee responsible for Hymns for Today’s Church (Hodder and Stoughton, 1982), a review of which …
Bulletin 131 Volume 8 No5 Winter 1974
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Treasure No 36: Hymnody in the Eastern Churches
Treasure No 36: Hymnody in the Eastern Churches by C. Pocknee: An article from Bulletin 123, Winter 1972 ymnody as we know it in the West is mostly a post-Reformation development, first in the Lutheran chorales and the Genevan and Strassburg paraphrases and then later in England in the hymns of Wesley and Watts. In the post-Reformation Latin services in …
Treasure No 33: ‘100 Hymns for Today’—a Supplement to Hymns Ancient and Modern
Treasure No 33: ‘100 Hymns for Today’—a Supplement to Hymns Ancient and Modern by Alan Luff: An article from Bulletin 117, Autumn 1969 Clowes, 1969. he new supplement to Hymns Ancient and Modern will receive a very wary reception. It will be seen by some as being in the tradition of the First and Second Supplements that make up the …
Treasure No 10: Hymns on the Air
Treasure No 10: Hymns on the Air by the Rev. Cyril Taylor (Religious Broadcasting Department, B.B.C.): An article from Bulletin No. 41, October 1947 have been asked to review the field of hymn-singing on the air, and to say something about the criteria which govern the choice of hymns in religious broadcasts. As these programmes stand at the moment, no …
Treasure No 9: ‘English Hymnal’ and ‘Ancient and Modern’
Treasure No 9: ‘English Hymnal’ and ‘Ancient and Modern’ by Erik Routley: An article from Bulletin No. 38, January 1947 brief correspondence has appeared in the columns of The Musical Times for September, October, and November, 1946, under the general heading of “Hymn Tunes,” but dealing in fact with the rival merits of The English Hymnal and Hymns Ancient and …
Treasure No 6: Hymns and no Hymns
Treasure No 6: Hymns and no Hymns by George Sampson, Author of “The Century of Divine songs” (Warton Lecture) and “The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature”: An article from Bulletin No. 29, October 1944 veryone is busy planning a grand new world to come after the war. Sometimes it is a grand new world for Britain and her allies, …