Music in the History of the Western Church / With an Introduction on Religious Music Among Primitive and Ancient Peoples

by Edward Dickinson

[61]Ibid.

[62]Ambros, Geschichte der Musik, vol. ii.

[63]The offices, chiefly conventual, in which the chant is employed throughout are exceptions to the general rule.

[64]This distinction between harmony and counterpoint is fundamental, but no space can be given here to its further elucidation. The point will easily be made clear by comparing an ordinary modern hymn tune with the first section of a fugue.

[65]Mendelssohn, in his letter to Zelter describing the music of the Sixtine Chapel, is enthusiastic over the beautiful effect of the abellimenti in Allegri’s Miserere.

[66]Winterfeld, Johannes Gabrieli und sein Zeitalter.

[67]Jakob, Die Kunst im Dienste der Kirche.

[68]Wackernagel, Das deutsche Kirchenlied von der ältesten Zeit bis zu Anfang des XVII. Jahrhunderts.

[69]Hoffmann von Fallersleben, Geschichte des deutschen Kirchenliedes bis auf Luther’s Zeit.

[70]Taylor, Studies in German Literature.