. Edward Hodges, doctor in music of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge; organist ... Bristol, England, 1819-1838; organist and director in Trinity Parish, New York, 1839-1859;. avoided. ** I was all the evening at my Monochordial calcula-tions till my head was fairly confused. Jan. 14th. * Still it rivets my attention. De Boudry accompaniedme to a book-sellers to look for some tables of Logarithms,to employ them in my musical calculations. • In my Study^ Nov. 6, iSjS- Mrs. Butterworth and her daughters attended me ateleven oclock, and had a further lecture upon seem to comprehend
. Edward Hodges, doctor in music of Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge; organist ... Bristol, England, 1819-1838; organist and director in Trinity Parish, New York, 1839-1859;. avoided. ** I was all the evening at my Monochordial calcula-tions till my head was fairly confused. Jan. 14th. * Still it rivets my attention. De Boudry accompaniedme to a book-sellers to look for some tables of Logarithms,to employ them in my musical calculations. • In my Study^ Nov. 6, iSjS- Mrs. Butterworth and her daughters attended me ateleven oclock, and had a further lecture upon seem to comprehend the drift of my chapter (in the* Tentamen * ) upon the Natural Derivation of In-tervals very well indeed. I fancy that I really havesucceeded in making perfectly intelligible to ordinarycapacities and ordinary attention, a subject hitherto treatedso universally in an abstruse manner as to be, as it were,completely locked up from the great bulk of even musicalpeople. This may encourage me to proceed with thework, which I have so long intermitted. * To my great regret this valuable and much-needed work on ThoroughBass has not yet been found amongst my Fathers CHAPTER XIV. MY FATHERS ANTHEMS. In the beginning was the Word. 1829. THIS Anthem conveys — as do all of myFathers—by even a cursory study, this di-rect impression : that before he put a pen strokeon paper, he had a clear and full conception of thewhole subject in his mind, not only technically, asto the art of composition, but of the higher art ofconception of an Idea. He had a wide mentalfield, and on it he erected his visual structure. The Anthem is in the key of C, f time. It openspiano and crescendo on the simple bass octave, thepedal bass C remaining steady for fourteen bars,including the introductory six bars by the upper part of this ascends chromatically withharmony, to the middle C. Here the voices allcome in very softly, In the beginning in octaveand unison, but follow up the course indic
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