(FROM THE PREFACE TO THE PSALTER NOTED)

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These Tones are properly sung in unison, or octaves, witli an

Organ accompaniment, varied according

to

the

of

taste

the

Organist, the character of the words, and the season of the Chris

tian year."
^'

The

be that

greatest advantage of this Ancient Ritual Music seems to

it

for joining

Offices, as well

daily Prayer,

Litanies,

and

tions of the Prayer Book,

seems most desirable

and

Occasional

Communioh

the Responses of the Holy

as in

which are specially assigned to both

Service,

facility

in voice, as well as mentally, in those portions of our

Morning and Evening

it

and the PeopK the greatest

alTords the Clergy

in the rubrical direc-

for this reason (were there

to restore

it

no other,)

to its legitimate honours."

" Let then the learned musician and the skilful Chorister
in those parts of the Divine
theni

and

it will

of

vi^w,

or

all,

and

this

music

where there

superstitious

is

will

but

in

in

from that which

the affetuoso sweetness of

tho end they

enerva^ted

is

Some of its forms may seem

will, it is

modem

believed, prove only as

the healthy bracing of the open air to those

b(Ben

alike for

no antecedent prejudice, or mistaken

alienation of heart

uncouth to ears trained

;

then obtain their homage too, as

Catholic in the best sense of the word.

liielody

condescend to those of low estate in musical

all the people^

proficiency

Worship that are intended

who have long

by the confined atmosphere of over-heated

chambers.*'

THOMAS HELMORE,

M.

A.,

Queen Precentor of
St. Mark's College, Chelsea, and Master
of the Children of Her Ma-

Priest in Ordinary to the

jesty's

Chapel Royal.

GREfiORIAN CHANTS FOR CANTICLES AND PSALTER.

TOIVE

I.

1st Ending.

2nd Ending.

3rd Ending.

4th Ending.

5th Ending.

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TO:iiE II.

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III.

ST Ending.

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2nd Ending.
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3rd Ending.

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1st Ending.

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2nd Ending.

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1st Ending.

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2nd Ending.

YONE

VI.
1st Ending.

1
2nd i)ing.

i
Iruegular.

TO.liJE

II.
1st Ending.

2nd Ending.

3rd Ending.

4th Ending.

To::%K a III.
I

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1st

Ending A,

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ST

Ending H,

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2nd Ending.

5
'r4K^>: IX,

(Perfgriiius.)

commend

to the attention of

words of a Clergyman who

is

known

my

Congregation the (juoted

to

be one of the most expe-

rienced and learned of living authorities in Congregational Music.

Let me again and again request all who attend the Services of St.

Alban's all, be they rich or poor, old or young to avail themselves

of their great privilege and audibly unite their voices in singvuj
God's praises. This I have endeavoured to make as easy as pos-

every one able to read, by the foregoing arrangement of

the simplest Gregorian Tones. I would further ask those who sit at
the South-Side of the church to join with the Clergy and choristers
on that side in singing the first half of the Chant, and those who
sible, for

at ih.^ North- Side to take up the second ^a^f with the choristers of
that side. Thus the antiphonal pointing of the verses will be

sit

observed as was intended, and in most cases the true meaning

atid the beauty of the Psalm or Canticle will be brought out.
In any special outburst of praise and in the Glorias both sides
should join.

BEDFORD- JONES, LL.B.

Easter, 1868.

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