The compleat psalmodist or the organist's, parish-clerk's and psalm-singer's companion. Containing I. A new and compleat introduction to the grounds of music, both Theoretical and Practical, as well Vocal as Instrumental, teaching all the Rudiments of Music in a plain, familiar, and concise Method; with proper and necessary Directions, shewing how to pitch a Tune concert-pitch, or on its proper Key: Also the Art of Composition, made easy by plain and practical Rules, shewing the Nature of common Cords and natural Sixes; also of taking in Discords, with proper Examples, plainly demonstrating how they are to be prepared, accompanied, and resolved, according to thorough-bass Rules: Likewise of Fuges, and the Contrivance of a Canon. To which is added a new musical Dictionary, properly digested in alphabetical Order, explaining, almost to the meanest Capacity, all such Terms and Characters as generally occur in Music, derived from various Languages. II. A set of services, commonly called Chanting-Tunes; together with five-and-thirty excellent Anthems, composed of Solo's, Fuges, and Chorusses, several of them being now frequently performed in the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, London, his Majesty's Chapel Royal at St. James's, and at Westminster-Abbey, with the greatest Applause. III. A set of grave and solemn psalm-tunes, both ancient and modern, containing near one Hundred different Tunes, properly adapted to the most select Portions of the Psalms of David, some of them being originally composed for the Cathedral-Church of St. Peter, in the City of Rome, in Italy; with a great many new Tunes, composed by some of the most eminent Masters that ever existed. IV. A set of divine hymns, suited to the Feasts and Fasts of the Church of England; with several Canons of two, three, and four Parts in one. The Whole composed, according to the most authentic Rules, for one, two, three, four, and five Voices, and set in Score, in their proper Cliffs and Concert-Keys, with the Trillo's marked, and the Basses figured for the Organ: Principally published for the Use of all Churches and Chapels, in Cities and Towns corporate as well as in Country Villages and Parishes, throughout his Majesty's Dominions of Great Britain, Ireland, and Plantations abroad. The fifth edition, corrected, with large additions. By John Arnold, Philo-Musicae, Author of the Essex Harmony and Leicestershire Harmony.

Date:

[1761]