The Book of Common Praise : being the Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog5673
- Publication Date
- [2005?]
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- General Synod Archives
- Call Number
- M 2133 A5C5 1964
- Corporate Author
- Anglican Church of Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto ON
- Publisher
- Anglican Book Centre
- Publication Date
- [2005?]
- Physical Description
- xii, 999 [+1] p. : music ; 19.5 x 13 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- Facsimile reprint edition probably produced using a book instead of film as the artwork in 2005. Information based on correspondence with Robert Maclennan, Anglican Book Centre Publishing Manager, September 2007.
- "Copyright 1938 by Anglican Church of Canada. Published by Anglican Book Centre, 600 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4Y 2J6". -- verso of t.-p.
- "Reprinted and Bound by Transcontinental Printing". -- verso of t.-p.
- "Compiled by a Committee of the General Synod".
- Includes indexes.
- "The original Book of Common Praise was compiled in 1908. This revision has been carried out pursuant to a resolution moved by Magistrate James Edmund Jones, and seconded by the Rt. Rev. J.C. Farthing, Lord Bishop of Montreal, and carried unanimously at Montreal in September 1934. .... The average lifespan of a hymnal appears to be twenty-five years. Each generation, with its problems and outlook, must ever seek new ways of expressing its ideals and aspirations. .... This book contains 168 hymns, 22 Ancient Office Hymns, and 323 tunes, not found in the former book. 59 of such tunes occur more than once, making 382 new settings. .... Two new sections have been added under the captions 'Hymns for Youth' and 'God in Nature'. In accordance with the principle of inclusion, the revised book contains a number of Ancient Office Hymns, which are desired by a considerable number of Church people. .... The Chant section has been enlarged." -- Preface.
- Contains 852 hymns, 59 additional tunes and chants.
- Contents: Preface to 1938 Edition / Wilmot Niagara, Chairman. W.T. Saskatoon, Vice-Chairman. James Edmund Jones, Secretary. -- Musical Preface -- Members of General Committee (1908) -- [Table of] Contents -- The Book of Common Praise -- Additional Tunes -- Chant Appendix (Revised 1964) -- Index to Chant Appendix -- Indexes.
- Indexes include: Index of Suggested Hymns for Sundays and Holy Days -- Subject Index -- Index of Authors with Acknowledgements -- Index of Translators -- Index of Composers, Arrangers, and Sources of Tunes -- Alphabetical Index of Tunes -- Metrical Index of Tunes -- Index of Original First Lines of Translated Hymns -- Index of First Lines.
- Added Entry
- Book of Common Praise. 1938
- Church of England in Canada. Hymnal Committee
- Chant Appendix (Revised 1964)
- ISBN
- 0-921846-88-6
- Call Number
- M 2133 A5C5 1964
- Location
- General Synod Archives