Conversion of St. Paul

Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary

St. Matthias

Psalm 138

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In order to chant the selection of Psalms, observe the following

NOTE. When the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds are sung, they are either chanted in a monotone by the minister and choir, (or people,) the former beginning the strain; or they are performed as set anthems, for which there are various compositions by the English masters. The Lord's prayer, as well as the collects, are chanted in a monotone, and the versicles as written in the Gregorian chants published by the subscriber.

CANTICLES OF THE CHURCH,

FROM THE

MORNING AND EVENING SERVICES:

TOGETHER WITH

SELECTIONS FOR THE APPOINTED SPECIAL OCCASIONS.

ARRANGED IN BARS FOR CHANTING.

SEVENTEENTH THOUSAND.

NEW-YORK ·

THOS. N. STANFORD, 637 BROADWAY.

1856.

PREFA CСЕ.

THIS work contains parts of the service which may be said or sung, not only on Sundays, but on special occasions; and is intended to be used by congregations as well as choirs. By the use of this book all may be able to chant with the choir without difficulty.

An explanation of the use of the bars and dots employed in this work, to a person accustomed to the exercise of chanting, must be quite needless, and to one totally unacquainted with the exercise, perhaps, completely unintelligible. Suffice it, then, to say, that the bars correspond with those in the notation of the music, and that the dots indicate the middle point of each particular bar (or “measure," as some moderns will have it) of the melodial part of a chant, as contradistinguished from the previous portion of each verse, which is necessarily recitative, and which, as such, is not amenable to the laws of rhythm.

It cannot be too much impressed upon the minds of the performers, that chanting is not properly singing; that it partakes rather of the nature of reading in tune, or in harmony; and this idea kept in view, with a due reference to the dignity of the service of which it forms so attractive a part, will go far towards the correction of two errors into which choirs are apt to fall,-an irreverent hurrying of the recited portion of the words, and an equally censurable drawl upon the rhythmical part of each phrase. "Let" chanting, of "all things, be done decently and in order;" for, if not so done, of all styles of performance it is perhaps most disgusting.

The publisher takes pleasure in expressing his obligation to Edward Hodges, Esquire, Mus. Doc., director of the music of Trinity Parish, New-York, for his valuable assistance in preparing the work for the press, reading the whole of the proofs, and noting such alterations as his eminent abilities as a scholar and musician enabled him to suggest.