Talk:Tate and Brady

This needs work!

Can't do it right now, but ref's could include:

a) Background of each (Tate, in particular)

b) How they happened to work together

c) The collaboration with Watts

d) Use in the colonies (slim in New England, for example, until the Brattle Street ("Manifesto") Church adopted it c. 1773, quite awhile after it had been "out." (the default in the New World was the Bay Psalme Book up to that point)

e) What was different about it (Watts' hymns were not word-for-word versions of Scripture, but glosses on Scriptural situations or themes)

f) relationship of use to so-called "Great Awakening," since it was not a 1-2-1 correspondence.

Musical notes, also, could be considered--contrafacto, or cross-referenced.

And a relationship to Wesleyan hymnody could be discussed.

More later? Others?Dellaroux (talk) 16:46, 6 November 2009 (UTC)