. rites, 
HEBREW MUSIC: 
« And behold, God himfelf is — us, a our captain, 
» to cry alarm again 
ooked back, behold the “Battle 
Judah gave a fhout; and it came to pafs as the men 0! 
Judah fhouted, that God {mote their enemies.’ 
It was, in like manner, the part of the ancient Gallic, 
n, and Britifh druids, who were not way priefts, but 
roufcians, to animate their countrymen to t 
us far we have only had to fpeak of ihe cultivation 
and Bi pdotears of mufic among the Hebrews; we have 
little more to add, except what will indicate its negle¢t and of 
. decline. 
But few memorials remain concerning it, frei the victory 
obtained by Abijah, till the captivity and deftruction of 
Jerufalem and the temple, by the Babylonians; in the reign 
of Jehoiakim. Before this period, mufic, and other facred 
had been frequently much corrupted, during the wars, 
and by intercourfe with foreign nations 3 and at every at- 
tempt to reftore them to their former purit y and {plendour, 
e 
tual, At the reftoration of the royal family, after. t 
crown had been ufurped by A 
princes and the trumpets ftood by the bagi and all the 
_ people of the land. rejoiced, and Reyanalesis tru 
the fingers with eee of mufic sh as taught 
‘to fing praife."’ And Jehoiada, during ‘ie minority of Joafh, 
«6 appointed the me with. rejoicing, as it was ordained b 
Da vid.’ B.C. 8 nd in this reign we find that ‘the 
fin rs, the fons of (toe were reftored to their places. 
efe continued, however, but a fhort time in the miniftr ryy, 
before eer were driven out, and the king and people became 
: another form. of worfhip. er various 
tite cag ciery in. religion sty aie ai a_ powerful 
attempt. was made, during the reign of Hezekiah, about 
726 years B.C. to reilore the SS to all its ancient 
iplendour. 
ss And : a fet the ns in the 8 of the Lord with 
cymbals, with pfalteries, ae a ith harps, according to the 
commandment of David.—And the Levites ftood with the 
ei at of David, and the "ps np the trumpets.— 
_ But the priefts were too few’? to pe the ceremonies 
eit folemnized in the temple. _ How: ay “ there 
now great joy in Jerufalem ; for fince the time of ate, 
there was not the like in Je rulele 
But this happy period was of fhort continuance ; new 
{chifms and new misfortunes foon put a 
in the year 606, . the Hebrew nial was J assign 
the temple plundered aan deftroyed ; » foon after, both 
king and people were, by Nebuchadnezzar, fent captives to 
bs) 
wo 
a the fawn years captivity, it is natural to 
pofe that the He' 
w 
of us then a fong,. and me! 
one of the fongs of Sion. ee hal we fing a ae Eg 
fervice of the - 
Athaliah, we are told that “the 
informed by a Hebrew high priett, 
the e coming 0 
kind of cuinlieat fitted up in the czar’s palace for his ufe. . nd 
-when he firft heard this fervice performed, fo 
- they * it firft ca i ee Pntag add parts to it, ma 
e the 
the celebration . their : 
Hees chants as w were <p oe in tk 
of Europe, at the time when 
in a ftvange land? If I forget thee, O Jetulalern, let’ my 
right hand forget her cunnin 
Thefe are the natural fentimenté and feelings of a people — 
but lately fallen a a fltate of profperity and happinefs, — 
into that of bonda 
Il that has ‘ies iidlerio colleGted relative to the mufic 
of the Hebrews, only fhews that it was in general ufe among 
them, from the time of te quitting Egypt, till they ceafed 
to be a nation; but w ufic it was with w 
they were fo much delighted, no means are now left to deter- 
mine. “That they had their firft mufic and inftruments, 
whatever they were, from the Egyptians, appears to admit 
no doubt; but thefe feemed to have remained in a very 
according to fir Ifaac Newton, after thefe Hebrew mo- 
“With refpe&t to the modern Jewifh mufic, we have been 
sap all inflrumental, 
and even vocal performances, have bee 
gogue ever fince the deftruétion of fies 
little finging now ufed are is an innovation, sat am 
licence ; for the Jews, from a paflage in one ef the pe 
think it soe or at leaft unfit, to fing or rejoice b 
he Meffiah, till =— they are bound to mown 
and repent in ices but the only 
who have ; a regular mutfical ettblithment i in _ — ioe 
are the | ans, who fing in parts me 
fome old conti or {pecies of gehts ec ok i 
At Prague they have an organ. | 
regularly perfor 
nging fo like that in the German fynagoguess 
thought it had been done in derifion yr the , ik — that 
account foon left. But, upon enquiry, finding it ® 
thing more than the manner of finging commor 
he concluded that the Perfians had borrowed this kind of 
chant from the ancient. Oriental Jews. At prefents — 
Martini has seiiae kot oe - Bie 
«Hl or of fab He- 
M Padre 
to whic 
tals be 
; not only on 
IEBREW Poe tekaeoas: is ae as ade 
deconnt of its or sci am but en mirable 
