The Enchiridion

Notes on Source Books ( Webb - Wex )

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Webbe, S.: Essay on . . . Plain Chant

(a) Samuel Webbe: An Essay on the Church Plain Chant, 1782

[ i.e. Samuel Webbe the elder (1740-1816); the probable editor ]

A collection including tunes for use in Roman Catholic churches in London.

Xrefs:
RS-160 Adeste fideles
RS-138 Corinth / Tantum ergo
RS-536 Melcombe
RS-297 Veni Sancte Spiritus

(b) (with his son Samuel): A Collection of Motetts or Antiphons, 1792

Xref:
RS-536 Melcombe

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Webbe, Samuel: Psalm Tunes &c.

(a) (with his father, also Samuel - see above): A Collection of Motetts or Antiphons, 1792

Xref:
RS-536 Melcombe

(b) Samuel Webbe: A Collection of Psalm-Tunes, interspersed with Airs adapted as such, for four voices, Liverpool 1808

[ i.e. Samuel Webbe the younger (1768-1843) ]
Xref:
RS-376 Richmond

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Wedderburn, J.: Guid & Godlie Ballates

(Julian, pp.1245b, 1021b, 1032b)

Guid and Godlie Ballates: John (? and Robert) Wedderburn, c.1542-46; later entitled Ane Compendious Buik of Godly and Spiritual Sangis, 1578 and possibly earlier (e.g.1568), including additions by other writers or translators.

The earliest editions contained translations of German hymns and metrical psalms made by John Wedderburn during his first period of exile from Scotland, when he emigrated to Wittemburg and made the acquaintance of Luther and other Reformers. There is no extant copy (according to Julian) that can be dated earlier than 1568.

The contents of the 1578 edition are given by Julian as

(i) The Catechisme (liturgical material and hymns based on it);
(ii) Spiritual Sangis (11 tr. from German and 1 from Latin);
(iii) Ballatis of the Scripture (? metrical paraphrases);
(iv) Psalmes of Dauid with uther new pleasand Balattis Translatit out of Enchiridion Psalmorum to be sung (22 Psalm versions, many from German; some secular ballads; and other pieces).

Although the Collection is now described as the pioneering source of Scottish psalmody and hymnody, it appears to have aroused some opposition in its day (compelling John Wedderburn to flee again to the continent in 1546); and one at least of its original ballads was banned by the General Assembly of 1568. It clearly helped, however, to prepare the ground for the introduction to Scotland of the Anglo-Genevan Psalters (1564/65) and the eventual adoption of the Scottish Psalter of 1650.

Xref:
RS-154 From heaven above to earth I come

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Welsh hymn-books

(a) Welsh-speaking

(Anglican) Church in Wales (Eglwys yng Nghymru)

Welsh Congregational: Y Caniedydd . (Union of Welsh Independents: Undeb yr Annibynwyr Cymreig)

Wesleyan Methodist (see Calvinistic Methodist, below)

Welsh Presbyterian (Calvinistic Methodist: Methodistiaid Calfinaidd)

(b) English-speaking

Presbyterian Church of Wales

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The Church in Wales

Emyniadur yr Eglwys yng Nghymru, 1897 (3rd edition 1899)

Editors:
Gwyr Barch. Daniel Lewis Lloyd, D.D.
Parch. Ganghellor D.Silvan Evans, B.D.
Parch. W.L.Richards, M.A.
Roland Rogers, Mus.Doc.

Contained 730 hymns, and 3 `introits' pointed for chanting. It included a large section of `General' hymns (235 in number); a Subject Index tothese was added in the 1899 edition.

As with many Welsh hymn-books, hymns which may share a common tune are grouped together on a page-opening, two to four texts frequently being grouped thus. In most cases two or three tunes are provided for each group.

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Welsh Congregational Hymn-books

(See also Llyfr Tonau ac Emynau, 1868 ed. Joseph David Jones)

(a) Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol, 1895

Llyfr Tonau ac Emynau yr Annibynwyr Cymraeg. [Welsh Congregational Hymn and Tune Book]. Music editor: David Emlyn Evans.

Contained 300 tunes and 930 Welsh hymns; with an Appendix of 30 `popular' English hymns (in English); 16 prose psalms and 9 other prose passages set to anglican chants; 25 anthems; and 2 `Sanctuses'. As is commonly found in Welsh hymn-books, the hymns are arranged under the tunes to which they are set, each tune being printed once only, with the words of all the hymns set to that tune following the music. Each item therefore has two numbers, one for the tune and one for the words.

This arrangement applies also to the two successor books mentioned below.

(b) Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol Newydd, 1921

Editors: H.Elvet Lewis; D.Adams; Ben Davies; J.J.Williams; and W.Evans Jones;(music) Caradoc Roberts; W.J.Evans; Dan Price; and D.W.Lewis

Contained 510 tunes and 1174 Welsh hymns; 11 `Vespers' (which include The Lord's Prayer (monotone) and `Amen'); 50 English hymns; 32 psalm and other chant settings; and 32 anthems.

(c) Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol, 1961; re-printed 1972

General editor (?) E.Curig Davies

Contained 501 tunes and 920 Welsh hymns; 87 English hymns; 6 choral Introits; 7 `Vespers' (including a Grace and (monotone) The Lord's Prayer); 17 prose psalms and The Lord's Prayer for chanting; and 16 anthems (including the `Hallelujah Chorus' from Handel's `Messiah').

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Llyfr Tonau ac Emynau
Llyfr Tonau ac Emynau, 1868, ed. Joseph David Jones and ___ Stephens (Julian p.1252a)

In use among Congregational Churches in Wales up to (presumably) the date of Julian's Dictionary (1892) and the publication of Y Caniedydd Cynulleidfaol 1895. `Stephens', mentioned in Julian as co-editor, has not been further identified as yet.

Xref:
RS-97 Gwalchmai

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Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Hymn-books

See separate notes on the following -

Llyfr Tonau Cynulleidfaol, 1859 / 1870
edited by John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt)
 
Llyfr Emynau a Thonau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd a Wesleaidd, 1929
edited by David Evans
 

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Roberts, J. (I.Gwyllt): Llyfr Tonau

(a) Llyfr Tonau Cynulleidfaol, 1859; ed. John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt)

Published in the year of John Roberts's ordination as a minister of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church. It became the recognized tune-book of that Church.

(b) Ychwanegiad (`Supplement'), 1870

Xrefs:
RS-602 Lledrod
RS-527 Moab
 

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Emynau a Thonau, 1929
Llyfr Emynau a Thonau y Methodistiaid Calfinaidd a Wesleaidd, 1929

A joint publication of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists and the Welsh Wesleyan Methodists. Music editor: David Evans

Xrefs:
RS-95 Blaenwern
RS-165 Olwen
 

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Werner, J.G.: Choralbuch

Johann Gottlob Werner: Choralbuch zu den neuen protestantischen Säschischen Gesangbüchern, Leipzig 1815

Xref:
RS-380 Ratisbon

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Wesley, S.S.: Hymn & Tune Books

(a) Samuel Sebastian Wesley: The European Psalmist, 1872

Xrefs:
RS-566 Aurelia
RS-540 Cambridge (SM)
RS-411 Castleford
RS-318 Cornwall
RS-433 Hereford
RS-242 Wetherby
RS-70 Winscott

See also Charles Kemble's Selection of Psalms & Hymns &c. . . . , 1865 (Music Editor S.S.Wesley); and an earlier Psalter with Chants, edited by S.S.Wesley (1843)

(b) The Fitzwilliam Music never before Published. Three Hymns, the Words by the late Rev. Charles Wesley ... Set to Music by Georg Frideric Handel

A manuscript discovered by S.S.Wesley in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and published by him in 1826 with the above title.

Xref:
RS-657 Gopsal

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Wesley, S.S.: Psalter
The Psalter, or Psalms of David, with Chants; ed. S.S.Wesley, 1843
 
Xref:
RS-682 S.S.Wesley: Double Chant in G

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Westminster Abbey Chants
Single and Double Chants, composed for the use of the Choral Service of Westminster Abbey, by James Turle, 1855
 
Xrefs:
RS-694 E.J.Hopkins: Double Chant in A [G]
RS-756 E.J.Hopkins: Double Chant in F [E flat]
RS-736 (also 742) G.A.Macfarren: Single Chant in A
RS-675 James Turle: Double Chant in D [C]

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Westminster Abbey Hymn Book

(a) The Westminster Abbey Hymn Book, September1897

Xref:
RS-578 Rustington

(b) (? later edition) 1883

Xref:
RS-617 O thou not made with hands

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Westminster Hymnal

(a) Westminster Hymnal, 1912

Music Editor: R.R.Terry
Xref:
RS-406 Billing

(b) Westminster Hymnal; Burns, Oates 1939/1940

Xrefs:
RS-287 The light of morning sheds its rays
RS-473 Ubi caritas

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Wexel, W.A.: Psalmer
Wilhelm A.Wexel: Christelige Psalmer, Oslo 1840
 
Xref:
RS-270 Lindeman

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