Church music reformed: or the art of psalmody universally explained unto all people. Containing, I. A new introduction to the grounds of music, teaching all the Rudiments thereof, in such a plain, familiar, and concise Method, as will enable most People, with a very little Trouble, to learn to sing the psalm-tunes correctly by Notes, according to Music, without the Help of a Master; also necessary Directions for pitching the tunes in their proper Keys; and a new Musical Dictionary. To which is prefixed a prefatory Discourse on the present Use of psal-mody; of the bad Performance of it in the Churches of London and Westminster, &c. Also of the new ludicrous Melodies composed by obsure Country Teachers of psalmody, which are daily creeping into Country Churches, with Reasons for laying those Tunes wholly aside, and for substituting a ``set of proper Tunes, as have been best approved of by the best Masters of the last and present Age, with proper Hints for the general Improvement of Psalmody i

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  • Church music reformed: or the art of psalmody universally explained unto all people. Containing, I. A new introduction to the grounds of music, teaching all the Rudiments thereof, in such a plain, familiar, and concise Method, as will enable most People, with a very little Trouble, to learn to sing the psalm-tunes correctly by Notes, according to Music, without the Help of a Master; also necessary Directions for pitching the tunes in their proper Keys; and a new Musical Dictionary. To which is prefixed a prefatory Discourse on the present Use of psal-mody; of the bad Performance of it in the Churches of London and Westminster, &c. Also of the new ludicrous Melodies composed by obsure Country Teachers of psalmody, which are daily creeping into Country Churches, with Reasons for laying those Tunes wholly aside, and for substituting a ``set of proper Tunes, as have been best approved of by the best Masters of the last and present Age, with proper Hints for the general Improvement of Psalmody i
  • Bible. Psalms. Selections. English.
  • Church music reformed.
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London : printed by R. Brown, for the author, and sold by L. Hawes and Co. at the Red Lion,, S. Crowder and Co. at the Looking-Glass, and J. Buckland, at the Buck, all in Paternoster-Row, MDCCLXV. [1765]
Added name
Arnold, John, approximately 1720-1792.
Publication year
1765
ESTC No.
T161195
Grub Street ID
200371
Description
xiv,xvii-71,[1]p. : music ; 8°.
Note
Price from imprint: Price, neatly bound, Two Shillings; in common Bindings, One Shilling and Nine-Pence to those who give them away to Charity-Schools, &c.
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The text and register are continuous despite the pagination