O May I Join the Choir Invisible

Abstract

WE have only the first number of this work before us. It contains two surprisingly short and easy pieces, intended, we presume, for the Church. It cannot be said that they are not melodious, but the melody is of a commonplace order, and characterless. We note that this number of the " Original Organ Music " is catalogued as Op. 3, Nos. I and 2 in the composer's works. We shall be curious to see the Concert pieces when they are ready. The Morszistg, Communion, 11d Eveni?sg Service. Set to music in the key of G major. By W. CIaxton, B.A. Mus. Bac., Oxon. [Novello, Ewer and Co.] THE style of this work shows a distinct leaning towards the modern school of service writing, in the way of obbligato, organ part, unison passages for the voices, frequent changes of signature, &c. It is not, however, an ambitious work, and it cannot be said to be strikingly original, but it is a useful and in many respects a commendable addition to this class of composition. Origzncz l OwXav Msic for Ch?>rch and Concert vse. By Edwin Allwright. [F. Pitman.]WE have only the first number of this work before us. It contains two surprisingly short and easy pieces, intended, we presume, for the Church. It cannot be said that they are not melodious, but the melody is of a commonplace order, and characterless. We note that this number of the " Original Organ Music " is catalogued as Op. 3, Nos. I and 2 in the composer's works. We shall be curious to see the Concert pieces when they are ready. The Morszistg, Communion, 11d Eveni?sg Service. Set to music in the key of G major. By W. CIaxton, B.A. Mus. Bac., Oxon. [Novello, Ewer and Co.] THE style of this work shows a distinct leaning towards the modern school of service writing, in the way of obbligato, organ part, unison passages for the voices, frequent changes of signature, &c. It is not, however, an ambitious work, and it cannot be said to be strikingly original, but it is a useful and in many respects a commendable addition to this class of composition. Origzncz l OwXav Msic for Ch?>rch and Concert vse. By Edwin Allwright. [F. Pitman.]WE have only the first number of this work before us. It contains two surprisingly short and easy pieces, intended, we presume, for the Church. It cannot be said that they are not melodious, but the melody is of a commonplace order, and characterless. We note that this number of the " Original Organ Music " is catalogued as Op. 3, Nos. I and 2 in the composer's works. We shall be curious to see the Concert pieces when they are ready. The Morszistg, Communion, 11d Eveni?sg Service. Set to music in the key of G major. By W. CIaxton, B.A. Mus. Bac., Oxon. [Novello, Ewer and Co.] THE style of this work shows a distinct leaning towards the modern school of service writing, in the way of obbligato, organ part, unison passages for the voices, frequent changes of signature, &c. It is not, however, an ambitious work, and it cannot be said to be strikingly original, but it is a useful and in many respects a commendable addition to this class of composition. Origzncz l OwXav...

Tracing the density of human being: through a Levinasian anthropology of invisible otherness

“…In her poem ‘The choir invisible’, George Eliot elaborated on her artistic ‘mission’. Having, as she saw it, witnessed the ‘burden of the world’ and sought in her work to ‘trace what must be, and what may yet be better’, she hoped for the effect of a ‘sweet presence of a good diffus'd, and in diffusion ever more intense!’ (Eliot 1884: 3‐4). She wished that the writing she left behind might bequeath to the world ‘pulses stirr'd to generosity’ and ‘feed pure love’, so that a ‘beauteous order’ might ‘control with growing sway the growing life of man’ (1884: 2‐4).…”

“…That is, outward forms can only ever approximate to inner intentionality. Finally, the complexity of earthly life is such that 'none of our theories are quite large enough' for its disclosures over time: life remains 'mysterious' (Eliot 1978(Eliot [18661981[1860: 498). Nevertheless, in the same way that natural science evidences the unity of things -how 'every single object suggests a vast sum of conditions' , small things evincing great (Eliot 1981(Eliot [1860: 273) -Eliot is convinced that this truth must also apply to human life.…”