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tunes. It gave great offence to the older Puritans, who wished to drawl out all the notes of uniform length; and some persons thought that marking and accenting the measure was a step toward the
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Scarlet Woman. The time was called derisively,
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Mr. Billings'
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Fuguing Psalm Singer
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O, praise the Lord with one consent And in this grand design Let Britain and the Colonies Unanimously join.
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Britain in them. The names
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Federal Harmony,
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Columbian Harmony,
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Continental Harmony,
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Columbian Repository, and
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United States Sacred Harmony show the new nation. Billings also published the
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Psalm Singer's Amusement, and other singing-books. The shades of Cotton, of Sewall, of Mather must have groaned aloud at the suggestions, instructions, and actions of this unregenerate, daring, and
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It has more than twenty times the power of the old slow tunes. Now the solemn bass demands their attention, next the manly tenor, now the lofty counter, now the volatile treble. Now here! Now there! Now here again! Oh ecstatic, push on, ye sons of harmony!
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Down starts the Bass with Grave Majestic Air, And up the Treble mounts with shrill Career, With softer Sounds in mild melodious Maze Warbling between, the Tenor gently plays And, if th' inspiring Altos joins the Force See! like the Lark it Wings its towering Course Thro' Harmony's sublimest Sphere it flies And to Angelic Accents seems to rise.