G. H. Palmer

Rev. George Herbert Palmer (Grantchester, 9 August 1846 - Oxford, 20 June 1926) was an English clergyman and expert on plainchant. He was ordained a priest in Chester in 1871 and later was organist of St. Margaret's Church in Toxteth Park, Liverpool, and St. Barnabas, Pimlico, London. He helped found the Plainsong and Medieval Music Society in 1888. He was notable and influential for his musically sensitive translations of Latin hymns into English.^[1]

Works

The Antiphoner and Grail, 1881
Harmonies of the Office Hymn-Book, 1891
The Sarum Psalter, 1894
The Order of Vespers from the Sarum Breviary, 1899
Selection of Grails, Alleluyas and Tracts from the Sarum Gradale, 1908
The Diurnal After the Use of the Illustrious Church of Salisbury, 1921-1929.^[2]

References

↑ Modern translation - Page 77 Ernest Stuart Bates - 1936 - G. H. Palmer. The latter made it the main concern of the latter part of a long life to anglicize the Latin words of the medieval English liturgy so that they should harmonize as faithfully with the original accompaniment of 'plain-chant' as did the Latin. He combined qualifications rarely found in unison : a scholar's gift for research, a poet's sense of words, a musician's knowledge of music, and a sense of perfection entirely his own. His Salisbury 'Diurnal' is, in consequence, not only a model ...
↑ Worship: A Review Devoted to the Liturgical Apostolate 1952 Another office book used by a limited number of sisterhoods is The Salisbury Diurnal, edited by Dr. G. H. Palmer, the plainchant authority, and published by the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, Wantage.

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[1] Modern translation - Page 77 Ernest Stuart Bates - 1936 - G. H. Palmer. The latter made it the main concern of the latter part of a long life to anglicize the Latin words of the medieval English liturgy so that they should harmonize as faithfully with the original accompaniment of 'plain-chant' as did the Latin. He combined qualifications rarely found in unison : a scholar's gift for research, a poet's sense of words, a musician's knowledge of music, and a sense of perfection entirely his own. His Salisbury 'Diurnal' is, in consequence, not only a model ...

[2] Worship: A Review Devoted to the Liturgical Apostolate 1952 Another office book used by a limited number of sisterhoods is The Salisbury Diurnal, edited by Dr. G. H. Palmer, the plainchant authority, and published by the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, Wantage.