Chapter 4

[Footnote 61: By the late Sir John Lambert, K.C.B., and published by Burns in 1849. Its Preface is well worthy of attention, and we note with pleasure his remark, "that while pleading for the restoration of the Ritual Song as the Church system and the music of the people, and as the basis of all that is really grand and ecclesiastical, the writer would not wish to be understood to object to the superadding of the most elaborate music where it can be properly executed, if it does not supersede the Church Song, and is of a character to harmonize with it. Doubtless," he adds, "as the Church employs all the resources of art, as far as in accordance with her own spirit, the most perfect celebration of the Divine Office would be where both could be combined. All would then be impressed and edified, each person according to his peculiar sense, and God would be worshipped with all the magnificence which art can be made to minister." (p. xiii.)]

[Footnote 62: S. Greg. Epist. xxxi. lib. xii. _De expos. divers. rerum._]

[Footnote 63: Thus M. Tonnelle, pupil of Father Gratry, of the Oratory: "Haydn et Mozart, c'est la foi Catholique, c'est la soumission naive et spontanee, c'est la devotion tendre et vive," which can, of course, be truly said without implying that they are always perfection.]

It was in April, 1886, that two of the Fathers, along with the writer, played over to Cardinal Newman, Dykes' well-known setting to "Lead, kindly Light," which (he said) he had never heard before, and he seemed rather surprised at its very quiet, hymn-like quality. No piano, he added, could equal the strings, nor any organ,[64] and we gave him the version of the "Lead" by Pinsuti, and West,[65] as also Hurrell Froude's "Tyre"[66] and his own "Watchman" and the "Two Worlds,"[67] all with violoncello _obbligato_. In 1889 he had been very ill, and when recovering, said to a Father: "Father Faber wrote the hymn 'Eternal Years.'[68] I have always had the greatest affection for it--quite a passionate affection for it--in connection with Father Faber, and I always used to think that when I came to die, I should like to have it sung to me; and I want you to play it for me." Would a harmonium do? "Yes, a harmonium would be just the thing; perhaps one could be spared me."

[Footnote 64: There was nothing, however, so really "magnificent," he said once (speaking of the wind instruments of brass and wood), as a military band.]

[Footnote 65: The following have set "Lead, kindly Light" to music: Canon J. Ballantine-Dykes, Rev. H. Earle Bulwer, Dr. G.A. Macfarren, Dr. S.S. Wesley, Dr. A.R. Gaul, Dr. C.J.B. Meacham, Sir A. Sullivan, J. Barnby, F. Tozer, C. Pinsuti, W. Hamilton, W. Hume, M.A. Wood (Mrs. Harvey), Katharine Rowley, C.T. Gatty, T.W. Barth, A. Allen, F.G. Pincott, H.C. Layton, J. Tilleard, J. Otter, W.H. Walter, J.A. Gardiner, W. Nicholson, J.W.R., and three anonymous composers. We may add that Mr. Rowton has musically essayed the _Dream of Gerontius_; "J.W.R.," "Warnings" from the _Lyra Apostolica_; Dr. Macfarren a duet, "O God, Who canst not change" (breviary translation); "R.S.," "All is divine which the Highest has made;" E.W., "Softly and gently, dearly ransomed soul;" the Rev. C.E. Butler, "Praise to the Holiest;" Maria Tiddeman, the same; Mr. Bellasis, the "Haven," "Consolation," "Waiting for the Morning," "The Two Worlds," "The Watchman," and "Heathen Greece;" and an anonymous composer, "The Pilgrim Queen," "There sat a Lady," &c.]

[Footnote 66: From the _Lyra Apostolica_, and a striking little poem, as indeed are all the few signed [Greek: b], the music by a pupil of the Cardinal.]

[Footnote 67: _Verses on Various Occasions_, pp. 80, 319; the latter written in 1862, the music by a pupil, and according to the Father "better than my words." The words also appear in the Birmingham book as a hymn (No. 67), entitled "Sacrifice."]

[Footnote 68: Father Faber's _Poems_, No. 135, pp. 379-381, new edit. 1861. This is not in the London Oratory Hymn Book, but under the heading "Eternity" six of the quatrains (Nos. 1, 8, 9, 11, 15, 16) appear in the Birmingham book as No. 73, and are set to a tune in the minor from Beethoven's sixth trio (for flute, viola, and violoncello), taken _andante_.]

So, when evening had set in, a harmonium was put in the passage between his two rooms, a Father knelt at his side reciting each verse, while two others played and sang the "Eternal Years."

[Music: BEETHOVEN.

How shalt thou bear the cross that now so dread a weight appears, Keep quietly to God, and think upon th'eternal years.]

"Some people," he then said, "have liked my 'Lead, kindly Light,' and it is the voice of one in darkness asking for help from our Lord. But this (the 'Eternal Years') is quite different; this is one with full light, rejoicing in suffering with our Lord, so that mine compares unfavourably with it. This is what those who like 'Lead, kindly Light' have got to come to--they have to learn it." Then they played and sang it over again. And he said at the end, "I thank you with all my heart. God bless you. I pray that when you go to Heaven, you may hear the angels singing with the genius that God has endowed them with. God bless you."

To quote as we began, and once again from Cardinal Capecelatro and Father Pope, and we have done. What His Eminence says of the first founder of any Oratorian Congregation may more or less apply to the great Oratorian whom we have mourned: "The sweet enticement of music is quite in harmony with the spirit of St. Philip, and imparts to piety an ineffable gladness and gentleness and grace. Take away from our Saint his delight in music, and you leave his image in our hearts mutilated, despoiled of much of its winning beauty."[69]

[Footnote 69: Pope, _Capecelatro_, ii. 106.]

INDEX.

_Accentus_, 32.

_Adelphi_, 21.

AEschylus, 12.

_Agnus Dei_, 19.

Alexandria, 18.

"All is divine," 38.

All Souls' day at Edgbaston, 19.

Allegri, 19, 20.

Allen, A. 38.

_Andria_, 21.

Anglican service, 25.

Architecture, 33-36.

Aristotle, 26.

_Bacchae_, 12.

Bach, J.S. 33.

Badeley, E. 23.

Bai, 19, 20.

Baini, 20.

Ballantine-Dykes, Canon, 38.

Barnby, Dr. J. 38.

Barth, T.W. 38.

Basili, 20.

Beethoven, 9, 12-17, 22, 23, 30-32, 35, 36, 39.

Bellasis, E. 38.

Benedict XIV. Pope, 16.

Bennett, Mr. 24, 25.

Berlioz, 15.

Birmingham Festival, 18, 32. " Oratory choir, 38. " " hymn-book, 23, 27, 29-31, 39.

Bittleston, Rev. H. 31, 32.

Blachford, Lord, 8.

Blanco White, 5, 9, 13.

Bowden, J. 9, 21.

Bowles, Rev. F.S. 10, 22.

Brahms, 18, 19.

Bulwer. Rev. H. Earle, 38.

Burns, J. 31, 37.

Butler, Rev. C.E. 38.

_Candlemas_, 26.

Canzonet quartet, 18.

Capecelatro, Cardinal, 5, 6, 32, 40.

Caswall, Rev. E. 14, 31, 32.

Catholic service, 26.

Chadwick, Bishop, 32.

Chalmers, Dr. 5.

Cherubini, 18, 32.

Chichester, 25.

Chopin, 14.

Christie, S.J. Rev. A.J. 32.

Coffin, C.SS.R. Bishop. 22.

_Consolation_, 38.

_Conversion_, 28, 31.

Copleston, Provost, 8.

Corelli, 13, 16, 20.

_Credo_, 14.

Crookall, Dr. 30.

Crotch, Dr. 29.

"Daily, daily," 31.

Darnell, Rev. N. 33.

_Death_, 31.

_Dies Irae_, 15, 19.

_Discussions and Arguments_, 16.

_Don Giovanni_, 31.

_Dream of Gerontius_, 12, 38.

_Dublin Review_, 16.

Ealing school, 21.

Edgbaston, 8, 19, 24, 28, 39.

_Elijah_, 17.

Eliseus, 24.

Elvey, Mr. 25. " Sir G. 25.

_Essays_, 12, 23, 26.

_Eternal Years_, 39.

_Eunuchus_, 21.

Euripides, 12.

Faber, Fr. F.W. 28, 29, 31, 39.

Farm Street Church, 17.

_Fidelio_, 12.

Froude, R.H. 9, 38.

Gardiner, J.A. 38.

Gatty, C.T. 38.

Gaul, Dr. A.R. 38.

Gigli, Fr. 30.

"God of mercy," 32.

Gothic, 33-36.

Gounod, 15, 17, 18.

Gratry, Fr. 38.

Grecian architecture, 33-36.

Gregorian, 32-37.

Guglielmi, 20.

"Hail, Queen of Heaven," 32.

Hamilton, W. 38.

Handel, 16, 17, 36.

Harvey, Mrs. M.A. 38.

_Haven_, 22.

Hawkins, Provost, 8.

Haydn, 7, 13, 16, 38.

_Heathen Greece_, 38.

Heber, Bishop, 32.

Holy Week, 32, 38.

Hume, W. 38.

"I was wandering," 28, 31.

_Idea of a University_, 5, 6, 16, 24.

_In exitu Israel_, 12, 33.

"Jesus, My God, behold," 32.

Jewish music, 34, 35.

Jouvency, S.J. Fr. J. 23.

Keble, Rev. J. 29.

Lambert, K.C.B. Sir J. 37.

Latin play, 21.

_Lauda Sion_, 17.

Layton, H.C. 38.

"Lead, kindly light," 38-40.

Leporello, 31.

Lindley, 11.

Lingard, Dr. 32.

Littlemore, 22.

Lockhart, O.C. Rev. W. 11, 22, 29.

London Oratory choir, 38. " hymn-book, 28, 29. " _Review_, 23.

_Loss and Gain_, 11, 34, 36.

Lydian mode, 34.

_Lyra Apostolica_, 38. " _Catholica_, 32.

Macfarren, Dr. G.A. 38.

_Magnificat_, 6.

Maher, S.J. Fr. W. 17.

_Mariale Sti. Anselmi_, 32.

McCarthy, Rev. Mr. 10.

M'Quoin, Rev. Mr. 10.

Meacham, Dr. C.J.B. 38.

Mendelssohn, 12, 14, 16-18, 30.

_Merry England_, 34.

Milan Cathedral, 36.

_Miserere_, 19, 20.

_Mixed Congregations, Discourses to_, 5.

M'Neill, Canon, 11.

Mon Reale, Sicily, 34.

_Month of Mary_, 27, 30.

Moorat, S. 30.

_Mors et Vita_, 15.

_Mors stupebit_, 19.

_Mose in Egitto_, 20.

_Mount of Olives_, 14.

Mozart, 13, 16, 17, 30-32, 36, 38.

Mozley, A. _Corr. J.H.N._ 6-9, 13, 14, 20, 21, 24, 29, 34.

Mozley, Canon J.B. 14. " Mrs. J. 6, 9, 22. " Rev. T. 9, 10.

Naples Oratory, 30.

Newman, Mrs. J. 13. " F.W. 7. " C.R. 7.

Nicholson, W. 38.

Niedermeyer, 37.

_Night_, 28.

Norris, Rev. J. 10.

Novello, 28.

"O God, Who canst not change," 38.

"O silly souls," 29.

Oakeley, Canon, 32. " Sir H. 33.

Okely, Mr. 17.

_Omni die_, 32.

Oriel College, Oxford, 7, 8.

Otter, J. 38.

Ottoboni, Cardinal, 20.

_Oxford University Sermons_, 5, 6, 18.

Pagan music, 34, 35.

Palestrina, 12, 20.

_Pater noster_, 32.

_Paternoster Review_, 11, 22.

Philomel, 9.

Phrygian mode, 34.

Pianoforte quintet, 18.

Pickering, 31.

_Pilgrim Queen_, 27, 30, 38.

Pincott, F.G. 38.

Pinsuti, C. 38.

Pitts, W. 28, 30.

Plater, E. 30.

Pleyell, 30.

Pope, Rev. T.A. 40.

Prendergast, A.H. 29.

Psalms, 149th, 150th, and _In exitu_, 12, 33.

_Quam olim_, fugue, 19.

_Queen of Seasons_, 27.

R., J.W. 38.

Rasoumousky quartet, 31.

_Redemption_, 18.

_Regina Apostolorum_, 27, 30.

_Regulars and St. Philip_, 27, 30, 31.

Reinagle, 9, 27.

_Requiems_, 15, 18, 19.

Rogers, F. 8.

Roman Oratory Choir, 30.

Romberg, 13.

_Rosa mystica_, 27, 30.

Rose Hill, 9.

Rossini, 20, 21.

Rousseau, J.J. 34.

Rowley, K. 38.

Ryder, Rev. H.I.D. 10.

S., R. 38.

_Sacrifice_, 39.

_St. Philip and the poor_, 30. " " _in himself_, 30, 31. " " _in his disciples_, 30. " " _in his mission_, 30. " " _in his school_, 30.

St. Anselm, 31, 32. " Clement's, Oxford, 24. " George's, Windsor, 25. " Gregory the Great, 37. " John's, Oxford, 7. " Magnus, 23. " Mary's, Oxford, 24, 25. " Peter's, Rome, 20. " Philip Neri, 5, 6, 17, 24, 30. " Thomas Aquinas, 18, 26.

Saul, 24.

Schubert, 12, 16.

Schumann, 16, 18.

Septet, 13.

"Softly and gently, dearly ransom'd soul," 38.

_Solvet saeclum_, 19.

Sola, 21.

Sophocles, 12.

Stanfield, Rev. F. 31.

Sullivan, Sir A. 38.

_Supper of the Apostles_, 18.

Symphony in A major, 12. " " C major, 14. " " C minor, 12. " " D major, 14. " " F major, 14. " " G minor, 18.

_Tablet_, 24.

Tarugi, Cardinal, 30.

_Tenebrae_, 20.

Terence, 21.

"The Angel-lights of Christmas morn," 27.

"The holy monks," 27, 31.

"The red sun is gone," 28.

"There are many saints above," 29.

"There sat a Lady," 27, 30, 38.

Thom's _Blanco White_, 6.

Tiddeman, M. 38.

Tilleard, J. 38.

"To Jesus' heart all burning," 32.

Tonnelle, M. 38.

Tozer, F. 38.

_Triumphlied_, 18.

_Two Worlds_, 38, 39.

Tunbridge Wells, 12.

Vaughan, C.SS.R. Fr. 32.

_Verses on Various Occasions_, 22, 23, 27, 39.

_Vesper Psalter_, 37.

W., E. 38.

Wagner, 16, 18.

_Waiting for the morning_, 38.

Walker, Canon, 22.

Ward, Dr. W.G. 33.

Warden of Keble, 14.

_Warnings_, 38.

_Watchman_, 38.

Waller, W.H. 38.

Webbe, 30.

Wellington, Duke of, 29.

Wesley, Dr. S.S. 38.

Westlake, Mr. 31.

Whitty, S.J. Fr. 10.

Wood, M.A. 38.

Worcester Festival, 24.

_Zauberfloete_, 22.

Zingarelli, 20.

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