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

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

I was in a Lutheran Church to help a friend of mine premiere one of his
works. They have chanting essentially the same as what I've been hearing
for years.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Roger Stokes <
roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> 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
>