Excerpt from The Order of Daily Service, the Litany, and Order of the Administration of the Holy Communion, With Plain-Tune: According to the Use of the United Church of England and Ireland Marbeck, it is probable, thought it unnecessary to print the whole of the Gre orian tones for the Psalms, for the same reason that be omitted t e Litany - they were already too well known to require republication, and no difficulty could occur in their ada'p lation to t e English words. But that they were intended to form part of the received plain-song is sufficiently apparent from his having set one to each of the greater Psalms. As a matter of fact, down to the beginning of the last century, they were alwa s employed in the choral chanting of Psalms. Thus, in Playfor 's Introduction to the Skill of Music, edit. 1702, an arrangement of the tones for the Psalms of every day in the week is given as the established and customary practice of cathedrals at that tune. That the same arrangement was in use in the earlier half of the 17th century, we have the testimony of Edward Lowe, who, . In his Short Directions for the Performance of Cathedral Service, 2d edit. 1664, has printed the whole of the tones, with nearly all their endings, according to the Roman Anti bona nurn; and as, he sa 3, they were sung in the Cathedral o Salis bury, where he had een a chorister, before the Rebellion.tions of the service permitted, is placed beyond any doubt. The whole of the music may never have been generally used, - some of it, perhaps, not at all, owing partly to. The changes made in the Prayer-book at the revisions of 1552 and 1559, and partly to the growing taste for figured music, and the tacit allowance of its substitution for plain-song; but it is quite certain that, so far as plain-chant has been retained, even down to the present time, it has been sung, with more or less accuracy, from the formulary set forth under the patronage of Ed ward VI. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.