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Excerpt from Excelsior Song Book: A Collection of Songs, Chants and Hymns, Designed for Juvenile Classes, Schools and Seminaries; Containing a Complete System of Elementary Instruction in the Principles of Musical Notation Third, the Mutual Adaptation of the Music and the Poetry. The music should sing the sentiment of the words, and the words should speak the feeling of the music. When the words are joyous, the music should be so; when they are sad, so must the music be. When the sense and feeling of the words pauses, the music should pause and when they uninterrupted, the music should flow on unbroken. These statements are so. Obviously founded on principle, that they seem almost superfluous, and the author has only made them because observation has shown him that they are sometimes forgotten. 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.