There is also theory that the plain song had its roots in Jewish music I do not have the music knowlege to explain it also Irish and Latin were inter change in the Celtic church I will stay off the subject of Cromwell as that is a sesitive topic here Thomas Hardy had some intersting music that was use in church There was a gape time just before Hymns Ancient and Moden came in when the village band played for all the social events and for the church There is an amusing account of when after one rather heavy Saterday night the Band fell asleep during the service woke up all of a suddenand lunched into alusty ballard forgetting where they were So where does one tune end up? Looking at the rootes our music is a really intresting journey