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Excerpt from The Boston Sacred Harmony, or New England Collection of Church Music: Containing New, Original, and Select Hymn Tunes, Anthems, Motetts, Sentences, Services, Chants, Etc. Etc Hence arise the three principal divisions of elementary science. As sounds may be long or short, there must be rhythm or measure, to regulate their length. Everything relating to what we call Time in music, belongs to rhythm. As sounds may be high or low, hence comes ME lody, to direct how high, and how low the sounds shall be, and what shall be the relations of the different sounds. As sounds also may be soft or loud, there is dynamics, or expression, which regulates the power of the sound, and musical expression in general. 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.