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clMUSIC LOVERS’ PHONOGRAPH E AXEL B. JOHXISOW, Managing Editor Published by THE PHONOGRAPH PUBLISHING CO., Inc. General Offices and Studio: 47 Hampstead Road, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. Telephone Jamaica 5054 Cable Address: "Phono” All communications should be addressed to the Managing Editor at the Studio, 47 Hampstead Road, Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. All unsolicited contributions must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope. THE PHONOGRAPH MONTHLY REVIEW appears on the twenty-eighth of each month. All material is fully protected by copy- right and may be reproduced only by permission. All checks and money orders should be made out to THE PHONO- GRAPH PUBLISHING CO., Inc. Yearly subscription price $4.00 in the United States and $5.00 in Canada and other foreign countries, postage prepaid. Single copies 35 cents. Advertising rates upon application. All advertisements for the MART COLUMN must be accompanied by remittances in full; for rates see under MART COLUMN. Subscription and advertising agents given liberal commission. Write for particulars. Gloria in CxcelStsi By the Rev. Herbert Boyce Satcher Cheltenham, Pa. M USIC and merriment have always been associated with the celebration of reli- gious festivals. Apparently this has been true of all religions, and the Christian religion is no exception. Indeed one of the very earliest of Christian legends relates how the Heavenly Hosts sang the first “Gloria in Excelsis” as they imparted to the listening shepherds the knowledge of the birth of the Wondrous Child in the stable at Bethlehem. That song — “Glory be to God on high, and on earth peace, good will towards men” — has echoed all down the centuries, and is not only expressive of the Christmas spirit but of the whole content of the Christian religion. Originally a single sentence, of which the above is one of the most familiar translations, the Christmas Song of the Angels was soon extended and elaborated, both in its Greek and Latin forms. By the fifth century it had made a secure place for it- self in practically all of the Christian liturgies. The Western liturgies placed it near the be- ginning of the Mass, where it has remained ever since, except in the current English and American liturgies. Here its place has been moved forward to correspond to the hymn the apostles are said to have sung after the Last Supper, thus connecting the glad tidings of the Saviour’s birth with the more solemn act of thanksgiving after the reception of the Sacrament of the Saviour’s Body and Blood. Just as the weekly observance of Sunday is a perpetual reminder of the first Easter, so the singing of “Gloria in Excelsis” at every Com- munion Service in the liturgical churches is a perpetual reminder of the first Christmas. Feast and merriment, with the glad sound of joyous music, have been from time imme- morial associated with the observance of the Christmas festival. And “Gloria in Excel- sis”, the original and only peculiarly appro- priate Christmas hymn, has been clothed with glorious music from the time of those self- effacing and now unknown Mediaeval melo- See last pa&e for Table of Contents Copyright, 1927, by the Phonograph Publishing Company, Inc.