This volume presents reprints of the prefaces to representative collections of metrical psalms. Psalm-singing, an essentially popular form of music, required some musical knowledge in the singers, and it was in these prefaces thatthe compilers gave basic information on the staves, clefs and note-values of contemporary notation. Dr Rainbow's introduction is a fascinating guide to the changing tastes and needs shown by the carefully selected reprints.
- ISBN10 0863140211
- ISBN13 9780863140211
- Publish Date 1 January 1982
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Imprint Boethius Press (UK) Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English