G. H. Palmer


George Herbert Palmer was an English Anglo-Catholic priest, musicologist, organist, and expert on plainchant, particularly of the Sarum Use. Named after the priest and poet George Herbert, 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. The majority of his extensive editions of liturgical music and texts were produced by the PMMS and the Community of St Mary the Virgin at Wantage in Oxfordshire.
He was notable and influential for his musically sensitive translations of Latin hymns into English.

Works

  • The Antiphoner and Grail: Being the Words of the Antiphons and Hymns at Mattins and Evening, and also of the Introits, Graduals, and Sequences at the Holy Eucharist, Derived Mainly from the Sarum Breviary and Missal, and Adapted to the Use of the Book of Common Prayer
  • The Hymner, Containing Translations of Hymns from the Sarum and Other English Service-books, Supplemented by Sequences from Various Sources
  • The Office Hymn-Book, Part II: Harmonies for Organists
  • The Sarum Psalter, 1894
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  • The Order of Compline from the Sarum Breviary
  • The Order of Vespers from the Sarum Breviary
  • The Responds at Vespers throughout the Year, with the Musical Notation, from the Salisbury Antiphoner
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  • The Antiphons to Magnificat Throughout the Year: From the Sarum Breviary
  • A Selection of Offices, Grails and Alleluyas for Sundays and Festivals from the Sarum Gradale
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  • *The Order for 'Placebo' or Vespers of the Dead, with the Musical Notation from the Salisbury Antiphoner
  • *The Musick of the Mass for the Dead Adapted to the English Text from the Sarum Manuale
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  • The Great Advent Antiphons: With the Musical Notation from the Salisbury Antiphoner
  • Salve festa dies: A Hymn for Easter Day, with Words and Musick Drawn from the Sarum Processionale
  • The Psalms and Canticles at Mattins and Evensong Pointed to the Eight Gregorian Tones from the Sarum Tonale
  • The Diurnal After the Use of the Illustrious Church of Salisbury
  • The Diurnal Noted: From the Salisbury Use, translated into English and Adapted to the Original Music-note
  • The Order of Tenebrae, Or Mattins and Lauds, of the Last Three Days of Holy Week, from the Salisbury Antiphoner
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  • ''The Antiphons upon Benedictus from the Salisbury Antiphoner''