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THE

CHORALE BOOK

FOR ENGLAND;

A COMPLETE HYMN-BOOK FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORSHIP, IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE SERVICES AND FESTIVALS OF

THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.

THE HYMNS FROM THE

LYRA GERMANICA AND OTHER SOURCES,

TRANSLATED BY

CATHERINE WINKWORTH;

THE TUNES FROM THE SACRED MUSIC

OF THE

LUTHERAN, LATIN, AND OTHER CHURCHES,
FOR FOUR VOICES, WITH HISTORICAL NOTES, ETC., ETC.,

COMPILED AND EDITED BY

WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT,

PROFESSOR OF MUSIC IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE,

AND

OTTO GOLDSCHMIDT.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, ROBERTS, AND GREEN.

ALSO TO BE HAD OF

MESSRS COCK, HUTCHINGS, AND CO., AND ADDISON AND LUCAS.

1865.

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TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

THE prefent volume fulfils the promise which was made in the Second Series of the Lyra Germanica, that the hymns contained there should be brought out in another edition, accompanied by their proper tunes. It constitutes, however, at the fame time, an independent work, with an object different from that of the two preceding volumes of translations from the German hymnology. The Lyra Germanica was intended chiefly for ufe as a work of private devotion; the Chorale Book for England is intended primarily for ufe in united worship in the church and family, and in meetings for the practice of church mufic. This aim has throughout governed the choice of the hymns and tunes, and the form given to them; many beautiful hymns contained in the Lyra Germanica have thus been excluded, because their length or their purely reflective character rendered them ill-adapted for congregational finging, while a large number of new translations-about onethird of the whole-have been introduced, either for the fake of their tunes, or to fupply neceffary requirements of our services. These have been selected from various fources, chiefly from fome very early German hymn-books, from the collections of Tucher and Wackernagel, from the new Bavarian hymnbook of the Lutheran Church, and from the Evangelifches Kirchengefangbuch, Stuttgart, 1855, publifhed by the Church Conference held in Eisenach in 1853.

With regard to the form of the hymns, confiderable difficulty has arisen on two points;—the great length of many of them, and the peculiarity of their metres involving the constant use of dissyllable rhymes. It has feemed best, in many cases, confiderably to curtail the longer hymns, to bring them within limits which, though they may ftill appear long to those accustomed to the English allowance of four verfes only, may yet, it is thought, be used without inconvenience. The hymn may frequently be found in its complete form in the Lyra Germanica. This course has, however, been deemed inad

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