ABSTRACT
The least studied work of Charles Avison is A Collection of Psalm Tunes in Two Parts: Adapted to the Several Metres in the Old and New Version, and to Those in Dr Watt’s Translation, published in Newcastle in 1757, and edited by Avison according to the principals of musical style and taste outlined in his Essay on Musical Expression. The Collection, and other works published in the North-East, are studied in the liturgical context of psalmody in England and Scotland during the 1750s and integrated into the broader context of interdenominational psalm reform in mid-eighteenth-century Britain.
