Caroline Powys in Canterbury Cathedral - 5 August, 1798, in the morning
from Canterbury Journal, 1798, page 306:
As to cathedral-worship, I daresay I may be wrong, but the chanting one’s prayers does not to me seem devotion properly expressed, and in general the clergymen who read them, and the boys who repeat, seem so evidently endeavouring to excel each other in vociferous exclamation, that it gives their characters too frivolous an appearance. As to anthems or sacred music in that style, it must ever be most awfully pleasing.
cite as
Caroline Powys, Canterbury Journal, 1798. In Climenson, Emily J. (ed.), Passages from the Diaries of Mrs. Philip Lybbe Powys of Hardwick House, Oxon. A.D. 1756 to 1808 (London, 1899), p. 306. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1516729668358 accessed: 20 December, 2024
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hide composersCathedral worship | performed by Boys, Clergymen |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 5 August, 1798, in the morning |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by lcc5 on Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:47:48 +0000
Approved on Sun, 28 Jan 2018 14:19:23 +0000