Music in the Church (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This free, though very expressive, school of singing came to an end with the establishment of a Liturgy; it is very probable, however, that some of the best effusions of the Agapae were pre served, and even admitted into the regular service of later times. These fervid songs of earliest Christianity were unaccompanied, for it would have been very difficult for any one to follow the singer in his untrammelled chant. Many of the early Christians (chiefly of the humbler walks of life) were unable to play the instruments, and these also had been too freely used in theatre and pagan service to make them welcome at any Christian cere mony. They convene at stated hours, before sunrise, and sing, each in turn, praise of Christ as of a god, says Pliny the Younger in describing the musical service of the Christians of his time.

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