Excerpt from A Manual of Church Music: Containing a Choice Selection of Chants and Metrical Tunes, Designed for Use in Public and Private Worship The Chants, which are few in number, are, most of them, already well known to the public, while those which are comparatively new, have been well tested by actual use in the Church. The selection of Metrical Tunes comprises a wider range and variety. In this part the com piler has endeavored to avoid the extremes of too strict adherence to the Choral style, or, too great a leaning towards the more popular melodies of the secular school. Many tunes are here admitted which the compiler does not heartily approve, and some others which will not be gene rally acceptable until Our Choirs are differently constituted from those now in vogue, and a purer taste in such matters shall prevail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.