A Handbook of Bible and Church Music, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from A Handbook of Bible and Church Music, Vol. 1

This little Handbook is intended as a compendium of information, drawn from various authorities such as, to most readers, are not always readily accessible. Unfortunately no treatise on Hebrew or on ancient Oriental music has as yet been discovered; and the only monumental record delineating Jewish musical instruments is the sculpture on the arch of Titus at Rome. We have to be content, therefore, in a great measure with very scanty and meagre sources of knowledge - sometimes the probable derivation of words and terms, sometimes the uncertain and often untrustworthy voice of tradition.

With regard to Ecclesiastical Music we stand on somewhat firmer ground. The difficulties are of another kind.

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