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Bulletin 248 Volume 18 No3 July 2006
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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 …
Treasure No 49: The Hymn Tunes of Elgar and Holst
Treasure No 49: The Hymn Tunes of Elgar and Holst by B. Massey: An article from Bulletin 160, Summer 1984 ate laid a heavy hand on English music in the year 1934. Within less than four months death claimed three major figures: Delius, Elgar and Holst. Delius had no impact on the world of hymnody—he would no doubt have been …
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 …
Treasure No 46: The Tune ‘LASST UNS ERFREUEN’ as we know it
Treasure No 46: The Tune ‘LASST UNS ERFREUEN’ as we know it by John Wilson: An article from Bulletin 150, Winter 1980 ne of the great successes of The English Hymnal in 1906 was its inclusion of the old German Catholic tune ‘LASST UNS ERFREUEN’, linked originally with Easter rejoicing, but now set to ‘Ye watchers and ye holy ones’, …
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 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, …
Treasure No 4: The Criticisms of ‘Songs of Praise’
Treasure No 4: The Criticisms of ‘Songs of Praise’ by the Rev. Canon G. W. Briggs, M.A., Joint-Chairman of the Society: An article from Bulletin No. 14, January 1941 o Hymn Book of modern times has attracted greater attention than Songs of Praise; not least significant is the prominence given to it by the B.B.C. At the same time, no …