The Psalmist: A Collection of New and Approved Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Suited to All the Varieties of Metrical Psalmody: Consisting Principally of Tunes Already in General Use for Congregational Worship, Newly Harmonized for Four Voices, with a Separate Accompaniment for the Organ Or Pianoforte

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J. Haddon, 1835 - 64 頁
 

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第 vi 頁 - ... it came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord ; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, For He is good; for His mercy endureth for ever...
第 vi 頁 - For he is good ; for his mercy endureth for ever : that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord; so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud : for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God.
第 v 頁 - Sing unto the Lord ; for he hath done excellent things: This is known in all the earth. Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion : For great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.
第 xi 頁 - The Whole Booke of Psalmes: with their wonted Tunes, as they are song in Churches, composed into foure parts: All which are so placed that foure may sing ech one a seueral part in this booke.
第 xi 頁 - The version was completed by John Hopkins and others, and was published in 1562 as "The Whole Book of Psalms, collected into English Metre by T. Sternhold, J. Hopkins, and others, conferred with the Ebreu ; with apt Notes to sing them •withal...
第 x 頁 - It allows every thing for the glory of God- — nothing for the ambition of man. At the same time, it claims attention from the most fastidious, by the richness and weight of its materials. Instead of the few meagre chords upon which the lighter tunes raise their fanciful superstructure, it grasps, in its ample comprehension, the most magnificent combinations, the boldest transitions, the simplest modulations, and the sweetest melody, clothed in a chastity that alike attracts the untutored, and approves...
第 x 頁 - Nor need its solemnity border upon apathy. The genuine chorale, instead of being wrapt up in monotony and dulness, according to the popular slander, offers scope, within the bounds of its own enchanted circle, for the exercise of the richest musical imagination. But it raises a forbidding wand against a wanton roaming beyond these bounds, and presents no inducement for human vanity to seek after idle display. It allows everything for the glory of God, nothing for the ambition of man. At the same...
第 vi 頁 - ... the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD ; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good : for his mercy endureth for ever : that then the house was 14 filled with a cloud...
第 xi 頁 - ... the public in their stead ; which they have done in a way that has tended to degrade the popular taste, and to deprive this delightful part of public worship of its due solemnity, as well as every other attraction it originally possessed. The apparent simplicity of the genuine psalm tune seems to have seduced these persons into the serious mistake of supposing themselves capable of composing in that style, and the still more grievous error of imagining that they could improve upon it. So prolific...
第 vi 頁 - In the language of this Divine book, therefore, the prayers and praises of the Church have been offered up to the throne of grace, from age to age. And it appears to have been the manual of the Son of God, in the days of his flesh ; who, at the conclusion of his last supper, is generally supposed, and that upon good grounds, to have sung...

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