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Sounds like a move back to the entry is the way to go, then. I'm not going to start up a new moves email until the last one has been sorted out, though.


Mikey

Move whatever you like, sweetpea. I'll be a while on this entry, I'm going to concentrate on the bellringing one first as that is closer to completion.


High church/Low church. Hmmm. I guess the best definition I have is that the High church keep a lot of the old rituals that have been passed down through the centuries. The Low church is designed to get rid of a lot of the pomp and ceremony which that may feel gets in the way of the real spirituality of the religeon.

A fair comment, anyone?

I believe that this thread was moved back to the article.

I'm back, and I've dusted off and revised this article. Are any of you here still around and able to cast another eye? I know it's been a while! I'll be putting it up for Peer Review too.

Thanks!

Still around but spending almost zero time in PR nowadays ... ping this one back up the list towards the weekend & I'll gladly revisit!

Mol

Cheers, Mol, although unfortunately I'm going on holiday on Friday.
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I'm going on holiday on Friday. Sorry, guys. Should have waited until I got back.

Hi Vip,
Hope you had a good holiday, I figured I write his now while I remembered, and then it’s there for when you get back.

Yay! … this is a nice entry, and a good companion piece to the Anglican Choral tradition one you’ve linked to. I’ve a couple of points, if I may (hopefully not too nitpicky!)

“The history of psalm singing goes back for several hundred years, starting with Thomas Tallis and his contempories and becoming standard in English churches by the 1800s”

Errr, I would’ve thought singing psalms is as old as the Book of Psalms itself, I once heard them described at the ‘hymnbook of the Bible’: my NIV Bible has several footnotes explaining the musical directions. Psalm singing in the Roman/Protestant churches does indeed go back for ‘several hundred years, starting with…’ but that is not the *total* history of psalms What about:

“The history of psalm singing is as old as the Book of Psalms, however the Anglican tradition goes back for several hundred years, starting with Thomas Tallis and his contemporaries and becoming standard in English churches by the 1800s”

It might also be worth pointing out that some churches (my current one included) use a responsorial psalm (in this case as a gradual between the old and new testament readings during the Eucharist service on Sunday mornings) :

- organ plays the chant (melody line)
- cantor sings the response (organ plays accomp.)
- all (cantor, choir and congregation) sing response
- cantor sings ‘verses’, using chant .
- all sing response
- repeat for as longs as that day’s psalm lasts, finishing with a final response.

And a couple of typos…

contempories -- > contemporaries
calander -- > calendar
inbetween -- > in between
sentances -- > sentences
prenounced -- > pronounced

Other than that . I had a google at lunchtime, but couldn’t find a better/clearer diagram of the chant than the wiki one

Rockhound (evensong-loving alto)