KD 61729

HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
LIRDARY

JAN 9 19 2

LONDON:

NOVELLO AND COMPANY, LIMITED,

PRINTERS.

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PREFACE.

THE following Collection of "WORDS OF ANTHEMS" is mainly founded on that issued some years ago under the joint Editorship of the Rev. W. RAYSON, M.A., Sir JOHN STAINER, M.A., Mus. Doc., and the Rev. J. TROUTBECK, D.D.

Not only, however, has it been made more comprehensive, but it has been almost entirely re-arranged on a plan commending itself to many distinguished and experienced Church Musicians, from whom also many valuable hints and much kind help have been received.

In grateful recognition of such help, the Compiler desires especially to mention the names of W. A. Barrett, Mus. Bac., Vicar Choral of St. Paul's Cathedral; C. S. Jekyll, Organist and Composer to Her Majesty's Chapels Royal; the Rev. S. Flood Jones, M.A., Precentor of Westminster Abbey; C. Harford Lloyd, M.A., Mus. Bac., Organist of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford; A. H. Mann, Mus. Doc., Organist of King's College, Cambridge; the Rev. Sir F. A. Gore Ouseley, Bart., M.A., Mus. Doc., Professor of Music in the University of Oxford; J. V. Roberts, Mus. Doc., Organist of Magdalen College, Oxford; the Rev. W. Russell, M.A., Mus. Bac., Succentor of St. Paul's Cathedral; Sir John Stainer, M.A., Mus. Doc.; Sir Robert P. Stewart, Mus. Doc., Professor of Music in Trinity College, Dublin; and the Rev. J. Troutbeck, D.D., Chaplain to the Queen and Minor Canon of Westminster Abbey.

Thanks are due also to C. Villiers Stanford, M.A., Mus. Doc., Professor of Music in the University of Cambridge, for his kind permission to print the words of Nos. 1546-1 to Sir Herbert S. Oakeley, M.A., Mus. Doc., Professo Music in the University of Edinburgh, for his kind permiss to print the words of No. 1222, his copyright; to the late 1 Henry Littleton, who took a great interest in the work durin the early stages of its compilation; and to many others f advice and assistance.

November 2, 1888.

HENRY KING,

Assistant Vicar Choral, St. Paul's Cathe

In issuing this new edition with an Appendix consistin of upwards of four hundred Anthems which have recenth appeared, the special attention of Precentors, Organists and Choirmasters is directed to the index of "Anthera suitable for certain days or seasons," which has bee considerably enlarged, in the hope that it will be foun more valuable to those whose duty it is to select the music for "quires and places where they sing," and to assist them in making their selections with due regard to the sentiment of the words and their suitability for "certain days

or seasons."

Thanks are hereby tendered to the proprietors of " Hyn Ancient and Modern," for their kind permission to print th. words of several hymns; also to the Rev. F. G. Ellerton for No. 1766; to Messrs. Macmillan & Co., for Nos. 1666 and 1741, by the late Lord Tennyson; to Messrs. James Nisbet & Co., for Nos. 1686 and 1901, by the late Dr. Bonar; Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., for No. 1738, by the la Mrs. Browning; and to the Committee of the Provider (Row) Night Refuge, for whose benefit 1769 was written the late Miss Proctor.

ASCENSION Day,

May 19, 1898.

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