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The Psalms of David in Metre ... the Words selected from the New Version of Tate & Brady ...
Price: £80
Postage: £2.75
Year: c.1796
Author: Hugh Bond
Publisher: Preston & Son, Strand
Brief Description: A response to Bishop Porteus' charge of 1790 to reform Parochial Psalmody by the Lay Vicar of Exeter Cathedral
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Full calf binding, no date, c. 1796, printed by Preston & Son, rebound as prelims different paper to inners, hinges strained, inscription, some annotations, spine gilt lettering "Sacred Music" cover worn, a good and sensitively rebound copy of these psalms.
1790 Bishop Porteus delivered a charge to his clergy to improve the standard of congregational psalmody.
Quote from the charge:
" Of all the Services of our Church none appeared to me to have sunk to so low an ebb, or so evidently to need reform, as our parochial psalmody ; more especially, as Dr. Burney in his History of Music, had very injudiciously taken great pains to ridicule and discredit the vise of psalmody in our churches, and to introduce in the room of it cathedral music. In consequence of this, many churches and chapels in London had already adopted his ideas ; and at their charity sermons, professional singers, both male and female, were brought from various places of public entertainment, to sing hymns and anthems for the benefit of the children. Nay, in one or two churches, there had been musical entertainments upon Sunday evenings, without even prayers or a sermon. I therefore thought it highly necessary, in order to prevent our places of public worship from being converted into concert rooms, to endeavour to check this musical madness, and if possible to bring back our psalmody to its ancient purity and simplicity."
This book is a response to that charge.
