[Magdalen] Was: Prayers ANSWERED: Now, Chant.

[Roger Stokes]

On 19/02/2016 21:04, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
> In a message dated 2/19/2016 3:42:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> jguthrie at pipeline.com writes:
>
> In  short, nearly all congregational singing we know is rooted no earlier
> than  the 19th Century adn attempts to recapture the pre-Reformation
> genre is  mere affectation.>>>>>>
>   
> If you mean by this that congregations did not sing prior to the 19th
> century, you may be correct for the UK.

and there only in Anglicanism.  Charles Wesley certainly assumed members 
of his new churches would sing when he wrote all those hymns for them.  
What became the standard general-purpose hymnal for the C/E traces its 
history to a conversation between two clergymen on a train in 1858.  The 
first edition of "Hymns Ancient & Modern" appeared three years later.

Roger