Excerpt from Cantica Laudis, or the American Book of Church Music: Being Chiefly a Selection of Chaste and Elegant Melodies, From the Most Classic Authors, Ancient and Modern, With Harmony Parts The tunes in this first part of the work, while, with but few exceptions, they are strictly choir tunes, and not adapted to congregational singing, may be divided into two classes. 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.