Songs of Praise (hymnal)

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Songs of Praise is a 1925 hymnal.[1] Compiled by Percy Dearmer, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Martin Shaw, it was intended as a companion to the popular English Hymnal of 1911. Musically, it deliberately omitted several Victorian hymn tunes and substituted "modal" tunes by Shaw and Gustav Holst.[2]

During the twentieth century it was widely used in schools in the UK.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Index of Songs or Praise, 1925. Retrieved on 2008-02-23.
  2. ^ Grove Music
  3. ^ Index of Songs or Praise, 1925. Retrieved on 2008-02-23.
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