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\n2.CHOIR-TRAINING  \n3.How TO FORM A CHOIR  \n4.How TO TRAIN A CHOIR OFMEN AND WOMEN  \n5.HYMN TUNES—an historical outline  \n6.WORDS OF HYMNS—a short history  \n7.THE PARISH CHURCH ORGAN  \n8..CONDUCTING FOR CHURCH MUSICIANS  \n9.How TO READ MUSIC  \n10.WHAT IS PLAINSONG?  \n11.THE ACCOMPANIMENT OF PLAINSONG  \n12.PLAINSONG HYMNS AND SEQUENCES  \nPricedf each,post free(50%discount to R.S.C.M.members)  \nBooks recommended for furtherstudy may be ordered throughThe Royal School of Church Music  \nHubert CrookPercy G.SaundersHubert Crook  \nA.J.PritchardErik RoutleyErik RoutleyW.L.SumnerHenry ColemanBernarr RainbowArthur W.ClarkeMichael FlemingDenis Stevens  \nHYMN TUNES  \nAn Historical Outline  \nby  \nERIK ROUTLEY  \nPublished by  \nTHE ROYAL SCHOOL OF CHURCH MUSICADDINGTON PALACE,CROYDON  \nSURREY  \nThe Study Notes series is intended to help all who have not the timefor exhaustive study,but wish to know more about various aspectsof church music.In each booklet there is a list of other booksrecommended for further study for those readers who wish tobroaden their knowledge.The aim in each essay is to presentfundamental facts in a concise way and to offer practical advice.Both the beginner and the more experienced church musician willfind it invaluable to have the complete series in their library.  \nA number of experts have been invited to contribute to this seriesand we have left each to write in his own individual way.  \nGERALD H.KNIGHT  \nDirector  \nCONTENTS  \nPage  \nIntroduction  \n5  \n…  \n…  \n…  \nGenevan hymn tune  \n…  \n5  \n…  \n…  \nEnglish psalm tune  \n5  \n…  \n…  \n…  \nTunes by well-known English musicians  \n7  \n…  \nEighteenth century style  \n8  \n…  \n…  \n…  \nGerman hymnody  \n9  \n…  \n…  \n…  \n…  \n…  \n…  \n(a)Primitive ...  \n9  \n……………  \n(b)Classical ...……9  \n(c)Late and decadent…10  \n(d)The chorale-arrangements of Bach……10The nineteenth century …………10  \n(a)1800—40...……10  \n(b)The antiquarian revival .….……11  \n(c)The Victorian style  \n11  \n……  \n(d)The choral revival  \n11  \n…  \n…  \n…  \nThe twentieth century ...……………12Addenda  \n(a)Welsh tunes  \n……………13  \n(b)Roman Catholic tunes  \n13  \n……  \n14  \n(c)American Hymnody……………  \n(d)Oddities ....…………14Bibliography…………15  \nNOTES  \nIn the reference to the hymn tunes the following abbreviations areused.  \nAMS—Hymns Ancient and Modern(Standard edition)1916  \nAM—Hymns Ancient and Modern,Revised,1950  \nEH —English Hymnal,1933  \nCP —Congregational Praise  \nSP —Songs of Praise  \n# HYMN TUNESAn Historical Outline\n\nTHE TUNES which Englishmen sing to their hymns (plainsong apart)come from many countries,many religious cultures,and from anyperiod within the last 430 years.It should always be rememberedthat hymn tunes as we sing them are often somewhat altered,andsometimes drastically altered,from their original melodic forms,andthat it is positively the exception for any tune composed before about1750 to be sung nowadays to harmony written by its composer.Themain divisions into which the history of hymnody falls are these:  \n# GENEVAN\n\nTHIS FORM OF hymn tune(strictly psalm-tune,since as originallycomposed it was intended for metrical psalms)is the direct ancestorof the English hymn tune.The Genevan family of tunes all comefrom the period 1542-62,and were written for use with the metricalFrench psalter in Calvin's church in Geneva.Their outstandingcharacteristics are broad and continuous melody,almost alwaysconfined to notes of two values,easy and grateful to sing.There were125 of these in the metrical psalter,and some have survived intocommon use today.They are known by names either in the formPsalm 130,or in the form Old 124th(when they were used in earlyEnglish psalters,see below)or by the opening words of the originalFrench Psalm,as Au Fort de ma Détresse.A good example isOld 124th(EH 352,AM 380),which is now sung exactly as it wascomposed.The Old 100th(EH 365,AM 166)comes from the samefamily;its 'long 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