Ebook An Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Chanting

The secret of their failure is to be found in the point from which all existing pointed Psalters start, viz., that, the chant being what it is, the words of the Psalms must be made to con form to it. 'the Anglican chant is a fact,' they say, and 'it is a melody of seven (or five) bars'; in other words, it'is a metrical tune, like a hymn tune, except as regards the reciting note and some deny even this exception.