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THE PSALMS,

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CHANTING,

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LONDON:

SIMPRIN, MARSHALL & Co.

MANCHESTER: T. FORREST. BRISTOL: H. C. E VANS.

WARRINGTON: W. LAVEROCK.

1848.

1849

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

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THIS Little Book has been printed, to assist Congregations and Schools in the practice of Chanting. Since much is left, in this description of music, to the taste of the Singers; and since, when many join together, this taste will vary; it has been thought desirable to secure the needful uniformity, without forcing a too minute accordance, by printing the Psalms in versicles, with the musical bars marked by transverse lines.

The Single Chant consists of two parts, one containing three, and the other four bars. The double Chant is exactly the same, repeated; and measures four versicles. Most of the Psalms in this Volume are arranged for the latter: but the two may be employed indiscriminately, only attending to the following rule: viz. that, when two versicles remain over from a double Chant at the end of the Psalm, (as in No 2,) the last half of the Chant is to be repeated before the Doxology; or, the 5th Doxology may be added to complete the Chant.

The first bar in each versicle may be of any length, (beyond a semibreve,) according to the length of the line: the rule being, that ail the words before the first bar mark should be recited in the same time, and with the same accents, that would bejemployed by a reader without the music. A common error minst be guarded against, of laying a stress on the last syllable before the bar mark, or making a pause after it. Unless the stresses and the pauses are given as they would be in good reading, chanting degenerates, from one of the most natural and impressive kinds of sacred music, into an irreverend and monotonous performance.

The words in each of the intermediate bars, are to be sung to two notes. Sometimes one syllable has to be sung to both sometimes two or more must be joined on one. The division is not marked in this Volume; partly from fear of unnecessary complication; and also, because a division which suits one Chant will not always suit another. When a hyphen appears after a bar mark, the syllable before it is to be continued for the first note of the new bar: if there are two hyphens, for both notes.

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