Hymns 14 – 18

I have been dragging the chain again! 

Enjoyed reading about JS Bach in Notes on hymn 14.

Under hymn 16 we find mention of Royal chapels.  Of particular interest to me, having visited St. George's Chapel and heard the small group of men singers sing for a service, I note that the composer James Nares was organist at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, which, like Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal was named a Royal Peculiar, exempt from Episcopal control. 

Episcopal:

1. Of or relating to a bishop

2. Of, relating to, or involving church government by bishops

3. Of or relating to the Episcopal Church

 

Of course, the Episcopalian Church in America is the equivalent of the Anglican Church in England (and Australia), but how do those chapels function without Episcopal control?  Any ideas?

 

Hymn 18’s note is good.  It quotes Mrs. Eddy’s note in her CS Hymnal: “Sing often in The Mother Church the hymn 173.”Hymn 173 is now 18.  My Words Only Hymnal tells me that there is no recording of this one in our church’s CDs of this hymn.

This note also says that the composer Michael Haydn (brother of the more famous Joseph), like Bach, signed his scores, “For the glory of God.”

 

Joyce Voysey