Hymn Techniques
This technique involves playing two parts with the right hand, one part with the left hand on a separate manual and solo sound, and an accompanying pedal line.
What is a tenor solo?
This person is known for translating German Chorales into English for use in the Anglican Church.
Who is Catherine Winkworth?
Routley says of these traditions, "[These songs] came from a culture in which there was hardly any music to be had, and were aimed in the first instance at people whose cultural resources were minimal."
What are Gospel Songs and African American Spirituals?
The Oxford Movement was begun in this decade.
What is the 1830s?
For the Beauty of the Earth
This technique highlights the melodic line of a hymn.
What is a soprano solo?
This hymnal was the standard Anglican Hymnal for almost 100 years starting in the mid-1800s.
What is Hymns Ancient and Modern?
According to Routley, the hymns of this hymnal were, "never vulgar, never extravagant, almost distractingly dull."
What is Hymns Ancient and Modern?
The Caecilian Movement is named after Saint Caecilia, the patron Saint of this artform.
What is music?
Where Wast Thou?
Who is Herbert Howells?
When doing a soprano/tenor switch, you must carefully watch for these "forbidden" intervals.
What are parallel 5ths and parallel octaves?
One of this hymnal's main editors was Percy Dearmer.
What is The English Hymnal?
Of this group, Erik Routley said, “The difficulty with zealous clergy is that they cannot always resist the temptation, in matters aesthetic, to confuse what the people want with what the people will be nourished by.”
What is the Twentieth Century Church Light Music Group?
These two men are credited with beginning the Caecilian Movement.
Who are Karl Proske nand Franz Xaver Witt?
O Lorde, the Maker of al Thing
Who is John Joubert?
Utilizing this technique (often defined by Dr. Bauer as the connection between notes) can help to emphasize the textual implications of a hymn.
What is articulation?
What are the Congregational Hymnary, the Methodist Hymn Book, and the Faith, Folk, and Clarity?
Of the turn of the 20th Century, Routley says, "The turn of the 20th century was a time, in England, of that great reassessment of hymnody, and indeed of all church music, which is often referred to as the English" this.
What is Renaissance?
Both the Caecilian and Oxford Movements look towards the past to help in their reforms. While the Oxford Movement looked towards the entire history of the church (including early Catholic Church from which they split), the Caecilian Movement looked to this "Golden Age" of church music composition for inspiration.
What is the 16th Century (Renaissance)?
Here, O Lord, I See Thee
Who is Percy Whitlock?
This technique comes from the a Latin word meaning "to play between."
What is an interlude?
To encourage use among the people of the Anglican Church, this news agency would feature hymns from The English Hymnal during its daily religious service broadcast.
What is the BBC Radio?
Routley says of this man, "He was the ablest and the most learned musician serving the English church in the mid-19th Century."
Who is Samuel Sebastian Wesley?
The culmination of the Oxford Movement for church music was the publication of Hymns Ancient and Modern. This is the thematic order of the hymns in the book.
What is Morning, Evening, Sunday, Other days of the week; the church year; general hymns; Holy Communion/Baptism; Confirmation; and Other important occasions (such as marriages, funerals, etc.)?
Man Born to Tell
Who is Gustav Holst?