whose reputation is greater for a knowledge of music; they then chant hymns composed in God’s honor in many meters and melodies, sometimes singing together, sometimes one chorus beating the measure with the hands for the antiphonal chanting of the other, now dancing to the measure and now inspiring it, at times dancing in procession, and at times set-dances, and then circle-dances right and left. (Sorrel, Dance through the Ages, 20) Throughout the ages many leaders of the church have loved and promoted