Excerpt from The National Psalmist: A Collection of the Most Popular and Useful Psalm and Hymn Tunes; Together With a Great Variety of New Tunes, Anthems, Sentences, and Chants; The Whole Forming a Most Complete Manual of Church Music It should be understood that while in choral performances an ability to keep the most exact time is required, it is not so in the congregational style, in which by keeping time must be understood nothing more nor less than keeping together; mathematical accuracy is not required; and with regard to the long notes it may be observed, that it is not necessary that they should be just twice the length of the short notes, but only that these two kinds of notes should be comparatively lon or short. 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.