London: C. J. CLAY AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AVE MARIA LANE. Cambridge: DEIGHTON, BELL AND CO. Leipzig: F. A. BROCKHAUS. New York: MACMILLAN AND CO. THE PARAGRAPH PSALTER Arranged for the use of Choirs BY BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT, D.D., D.C.L. BISHOP OF DURHAM; SOMETIME CANON OF PETERBOROUGH. NEW EDITION. Cambridge: AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1891 [All Rights reserved.] In this Edition the Pointing corresponds, except in a few cases, with that of the CAMBRIDGE POINTED PRAYER BOOK, published by the Cambridge University Press. PREFACE. DURING the last few years great care has been successfully bestowed upon the pointing of the Psalter, so as to ensure an intelligent musical rendering of each clause of the separate verses; but, as far as I am aware, no attempt has been made to exhibit the general structure of the Psalms in such a manner as to suggest the variety of musical treatment which is required in different Psalms and in different parts of the same Psalms for their true interpretation. The present arrangement, which has been made and tested during the last six years of my work at Peterborough, is an endeavour to obtain this object, or at least to indicate what must be aimed at, as far as I can judge, in order that the chanting of the Psalms may contribute in the highest degree to the edifying of the Choir and of the Congregation. It is evident upon the least reflection that no one uniform method of chanting can be applicable to the whole Psalter. Sometimes the verses are separately complete; sometimes they are arranged in couplets, sometimes in triplets; sometimes they are grouped in unequal but corresponding masses. a |
