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Excerpt from The New Haven Collection of Sacred Music: Containing a Set of Tunes Adapted to the Metres and Subjects of the Psalms and Hymns in General Use; Selected, Principally, From the Works of the Most Eminent Authors IN beating time the hand should fall at the begining and rise at the end of every bar in all the moods. The letters d, u, in the examples on the preceding page, show which parts of the bar should be beat down and which up. Each beat in a bar ought to have an appropriate motion; it will then be seen which part of it the singers are engaged in. 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.