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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 that the 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.Rainbow, Bernarr is the author of 'English Psalmody Prefaces Popular Methods of Teaching, 1562-1835', published 1997 under ISBN 9780863140211 and ISBN 0863140211.
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