Author: Samuel Willard

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9781330361597

Excerpt from Sacred Poetry and Music Reconciled: Or a Collection of Hymns, Original and Compiled, Intended to Secure, by the Simplest and Most Practicable Means, an Invariable Coincidence Between the Poetic and the Musical Emphases Be it remembered dial on the twenty seventh day of July, A. D. 1830,in the fifty fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America. Samuel Willard, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book the right whereof he claims as Author and Proprietor, in the words following, lo wit: 'Sacred Poetry and Music reconciled; or a collection of Hymns original and compiled, intended to secure, by the simplest and most practicable means, an invariable coincidence between the poetic and the musical emphases, and thus to combine the two powers for the high purpose of religious impression; to which are added several chants for hymns and select Scriptures, with a simple notation, adapted to the general design. By Samuel Willard, D. D. A. A. S. - Adopted, while in manuscript, by the Third Congregational Society in Hingham.' In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United Stales, entitled an 'act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned and also to an act, entitled 'an act supplementary to an act, entitled an act, for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.' 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.