Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2)Engel, Carl
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Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2)
Engel, Carl
Music -- History and criticism
Happy Muggletonians, who only
True faith have to receive;
Revelation ever new
Gave to great Muggleton and Reeve.
SONG IX.
Hail! hail! two prophets great,
Whose message does relate
To the state of Adam's seed, etc.
SONG CXXXIII.
I do believe in God alone,
Likewise in Reeve and Muggleton, etc.
In a work illustrating the musical performances of the various
denominations even small and eccentric ones must not be omitted.
As regards the Protestant Church of the Scandinavians, the following
remarks may perhaps serve as a guide for research:--Schiˆrring published
in the year 1783 a Danish Chorale book, of which an improved edition,
with figured basses, by P. E. Bach, appeared in 1794. An account of the
old Swedish psalm-books of Swedberg, and others, is to be found in 'Den
Nya Swenska Psalmboken framst‰lld uti Fˆrsˆk till Swensk Psalmhistoria,
of Johan Wilhelm Beckman,' Stockholm, 1845. A Lutheran hymn-book was
printed in Skalholt, Iceland, in 1594, and went through many editions.
In the Baltic Provinces of Russia, J. L. E. Punschel published in Dorpat,
in the year 1839, a Chorale book containing 364 different melodies in
four-part harmony. A second edition appeared in 1843, and a third in
1850. Its title is--'Evangelisches Choralbuch, zun‰chst in Bezug auf die
deutschen, lettischen, und esthnischen Gesangb¸cher der russischen
Ostsee-Provinzen, auf den Wunsch Livl‰ndischen Provinzial-Synode
bearbeitet und angefertigt.' The preface contains some interesting
notices of the old hymn-books formerly in use in Livonia, Esthonia and
Courland.
The Greek Church of Russia obtained its music originally from Greece.
The performances are entirely vocal, without instrumental accompaniment.
Although the original music has in the course of time undergone several
reforms, it is still very antique, characteristic, and beautiful. Among
the works which have been written on the music of the Greek Church may
be mentioned the following, which are more easily accessible to most
musical inquirers in Western Europe than are the works written in the
Russian language: Prince N. Youssoupoff published in the year 1862, in
Paris, the first part of 'Histoire de la Musique en Russe,' which treats
on 'Musique sacrÈe, suivi d'un choix de morceaux de Chants d'Eglise
anciens et modernes.' Chaviara and Randhartinger published in 1859, at
Vienna, a complete collection of the liturgical songs of the Greek
Church, with the Greek words. Another work, being an 'Introduction to
the Theory and Praxis of the Greek Church Music,' by Chrysanthos,
written in Greek, was printed at Paris in 1821.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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