(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 taste of the 
 Organist, the character of the words, and the season of the Chris- 
 tian year." ♦ • • 
 
 ^' The greatest advantage of this Ancient Ritual Music seems to 
 be that it alTords the Clergy and the PeopK the greatest facility 
 for joining in voice, as well as mentally, in those portions of our 
 Morning and Evening daily Prayer, Litanies, and Occasional 
 Offices, as well as in the Responses of the Holy Communioh 
 Service, which are specially assigned to both in the rubrical direc- 
 tions of the Prayer Book, and for this reason (were there no other,) 
 it seems most desirable to restore it to its legitimate honours." 
 
 " Let then the learned musician and the skilful Chorister * • * 
 in those parts of the Divine Worship that are intended alike for 
 theni and all the people^ condescend to those of low estate in musical 
 proficiency ; and this music will then obtain their homage too, as 
 it will of all, where there is no antecedent prejudice, or mistaken 
 vi^w, or superstitious alienation of heart from that which is 
 Catholic in the best sense of the word. Some of its forms may seem 
 uncouth to ears trained in the affetuoso sweetness of modem 
 liielody ; but in tho end they will, it is believed, prove only as 
 the healthy bracing of the open air to those who have long 
 b(Ben enerva^ted by the confined atmosphere of over-heated 
 chambers.*' 
 
 THOMAS HELMORE, M. A., 
 
 Priest in Ordinary to the Queen ; Precentor of 
 St. Mark's College, Chelsea, and Master 
 of the Children of Her Ma- 
 jesty's Chapel Royal. 
 
GREfiORIAN CHANTS FOR CANTICLES AND PSALTER. 
 
 TOIVE I. 
 
 1st Ending. 
 
 2nd Ending. 
 
 3rd Ending. 
 
 4th Ending. 
 
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 5th Ending. 
 
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 feE 
 
 TO:iiE 
 
 II. 
 
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 To:% E 
 
 III. 
 
 ] ST Ending. 
 
 P ■ ■ M 
 
 3 
 
 2nd Ending. 
 
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 3rd Ending. 
 
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 1st Ending. 
 
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 2nd Ending. 
 
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TOilTK T. 
 
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 1 1 " I 1 
 
 5 
 
 1st Ending. 
 
 P 
 
 2nd Ending. 
 
 YONE 
 
 VI. 
 
 1st Ending. 
 
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 2nd £i«)ing. 
 
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 TO.liJE 
 
 II. 
 
 Iruegular. 
 
 1st Ending. 
 
 2nd Ending. 
 
 3rd Ending. 
 
 4th Ending. 
 
 To::%K a 
 
 III. 
 
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 I ST Ending A, 
 
 ^^ 
 
 1st Ending H, 
 
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 5 
 
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 2nd Ending. 
 
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 IX, (Perfgriiius.) 
 
I commend to the attention of my Congregation the (juoted 
 words of a Clergyman who is known 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- 
 sible, for 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 
 sit 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 
 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. 
 
 i BEDFORD- JONES, LL.B. 
 Easter, 1868. 
 
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