Excerpt from The Canticles, With the Te Deum, Office of Holy Communion, and Other Services of the Church: With Music The design of this little book of Chants is to furnish, in connection with the Church Hymnal already published, a. Complete collection of music for all the ordinary services of the Church. It is hoped that congre gational praise will thereby be promoted. The people should be encour aged and taught to join in all the musical portions of the service. There is no music in this collection which an ordinary congregation cannot readily learn. The Chants selected are those generally familiar in parishes where the Anglican Chant is used. Their selection has been guided by their merit of simplicity, or fitness, 'or by their being established favourites. Their varietyis sufficiently great (there are sixty-four single and forty (fondle chants given), to satisfy the tastes of all, except those who prefer the extremes of the florid, or the plain song. Besides the Chants for the Te Deum, three more elaborate adaptations are given for festival occasions. When used by a choir or congregation not divided into two portions for alternate singing, the syllables dec. And can. Should be considered'to indicate pz'mw, and the word full, to denote forte passages. The same direction may be followed in the other parts of the service to which it is applicable. 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.