Excerpt from Gospel Harmonist: A Collection of Sacred Music; Consisting of Tunes of All Metres, and Also Sentences, Anthems for a Variety of Occasions, Chants, &C., &C The motion of the hand is designed to assist the mental computation of the time, and it unquestionably is a great assistance to the beginner. The practice is of the utmost impor tance, and the school should be very familiar with the exercise. 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.