The music of the Pilgrims

by Waldo Selden Pratt

The music of the Pilgrims by Waldo Selden Pratt.
This book is a reproduction of the original book published in 1921 and may have some imperfections such as marks or hand-written notes.

46 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 22, 2009

Reviews

[Nigel Ewan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A musical analysis of the Pilgrims' Ainsworth Psalter, specifically as it differs from both the English and Scottish versions of Sternhold & Hopkins as well as the Bay Psalm Book. After a short introductory essay, each unique tune from the psalter is reproduced in modern music notation (melody only), followed by a few conjectural SATB harmonizations. A great historical resource for psalter-heads—not to mention beautifully typeset.

[Sherri · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a little dry but gave the history of how psalms were the songs sang and the culture of people based around religion.

The different psalters that were distributed in the 16th and 17th century and how the psalter the Pilgrims came to bring.

The change in public worship. "Public worship as an institution was not only reverenced but intensely loved, since it was the visbile manifestation of the spiritual fraternity of belivers in the presence and though of God."

It describes the change in church culture from praise and singing and congregationality to the ministeriality and intellectual prowess in the 17th century.

It explained how the psalms were sung the notes, lines, and stanzas. The harmony and singing were done for the most part without instruments. How daily and influential this singing was in the 15th-17th centuries.