The Organist's Directory to the Accompaniment of Divine Service

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Excerpt from The Organist's Directory to the Accompaniment of Divine Service: With a Full List of Voluntaries Appropriate to Every Sunday and Holy DayThe present volume is a sequel to the author's previous work, Organ Accompaniment to the Psalms. It is based upon a course of lectures delivered to a body of organists and choirmasters during Easter Week, 1906, by invitation of Dr. T. H. Yorke Trotter, M.A., and the late Mr. W. Harding Bonner.At the present day, the clergy and other church authorities are extremely reluctant to engage as an organist, any person who is not thoroughly conversant with the musical requirements of the Book of Common Prayer, no matter how otherwise accomplished such a person may be as a solo organ-player, etc. A great deal may be said in support of this reluctance, for it is astonishing how little is known of the details of the ordinary Church Service by even competent musicians who have never learned these things as choirboys. For example, the following may be quoted as an extreme, but perfectly true case in point. A London organist, being obliged to be absent from a Saint's Day Service in the middle of the week, had to fall back upon the help of a most capable organ student (not a pupil of his own). A portion of the very simple duty consisted of accompanying the Responses to the Commandments, which were sung to one of the settings in Mercer's Church Psalter and Hymn Book. But the deputy - although a brilliant player with a large number of voluntaries and recital pieces in his portfolio - had never accompanied such a service before.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.