Note 21 — A Practical Discourse on some Principles of Hymn-Singing By Robert Bridges
Reading edition
It must be due to unwillingness that comparatively so few of our clergy can take their part in the service when it is musical. Village schoolmasters tell me that two hours a week is sufficient in a few months to bring all the children up to a standard of time and tune and reading at sight that would suffice a minor canon.