WITH THE CANTICLES AND HYMNS OF THE CHURCH, POINTED FOR CHANTING. BY J. M. BENTLEY, ORGANIST AND CHOIRMASTER OF BOWDON PARISH CHURCH. "Let the people praise Thee, O God: yea, let all the people MANCHESTER : JOHN HEYWOOD, 141 & 143, DEANSGATE. SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, AND co. LONDON 138. 443. EXPLANATORY NOTICE. The following illustrations will serve to exemplify the method of pointing adopted in this Psalter: My help-cometh of | God: who preserv-eth | them that are | true of | heart. 4. All sheep and | oxen: yea, and the beasts of the field. The dash at the close of the reciting passages is here used as a TENUTO sign, where the voice should be slightly suspended before chanting the cadences. It generally occurs at the last accented syllable in the recitation. THE CANTICLES. Venite exultemus Domino. Psalm xcv. Courtily rejoice in the strength of COME, let us sing - unto the Lord let us salvation. our 2 Let us come before his presence with thanks giving and shew ourselves - glad in | him with Psalms. dry | land. and fall | down and : hands - pre | pared the 6 O come, let us worship, kneel - before the | Lord our | Maker. 7 For hè is the Lord our God and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. 8 To day if ye will hear his voice, har den not your hearts as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation | in the wilderness, 9 When your fathers | tempted me pro- ved | | me, and | saw my | works. 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this gen - er | | ation, and said: It is a people that do err in their hearts, for they | have not | known my ways. AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING, IS NOW, - AND EVER | SHALL BE WORLD WITH OUT END. | A | MEN. B |