Excerpt from Harmonia Sacra: Being a Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes, Selected and Adapted From the Works of Handel, Luther, Ravenscroft, J. Clark, Drs. Croft, Arnold, Howard, Boyce, &C. With Which Are Interspersed a Number of New Tunes, Composed Expressly for This Work The complaints made by persons of sound taste and judgement, of the imperfect manner in which Church music has been published, and which In that state has found its way into most of the congregations and religious societies, are too just not to be attended to in a publica tion of this kind, even though Custom and a depraved taste should have long decided in its favour. In forming this collection care will be taken to correct such as come under this description and many tunes will be introduced, which are not generally known in the west ern world, from the works of these celebrated masters, Purcel, Croft, Clark, Ravenscroft, and Handel. Occasionally some pieces from the Lock Hospital Collection (with vocal basses purposely arranged) will be introduced. 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.