JUST PUBLISHED BY JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND, LONDON.

Published on the First Day of each Month, price 1s. 6d.

SACRED MINSTRELSY;

A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF THE FINEST AND MOST ADMIRED SACRED MUSIC,

OF THE GREATEST MASTERS OF ALL AGES AND NATIONS;

ARRANGED AS

SOLOS, DUETS, TRIOS, &c., AND WITH ACCOMPANIMENTS FOR THE PIANO-FORTE OR ORGAN.

THIS work will comprise such of the best productions of the English, German, and Italian schools, as are calculated for social purposes. A large proportion of these are either altogether unknown in this country, or are comparatively inaccessible, from the magnitude and consequent cost of the volumes which contain them, and useless to most persons, from the impracticable shape in which they have been published. The great length, also, to which some Anthems, and all Motets, Masses, &c., extend, and the many voices they commonly require, render them often inconvenient for use as chamber music, however proper they may be for the service of the churches for which they were written. From these, and other sources, select portions, suited to the object in view, are re-arranged: but each composition, in itself, constitutes a complete whole. Occasionally, entire works, of moderate length, 4. QUARTETT.. {How Blessed the man, how more than RIGHINI. including some new compositions, will appear in the SACRED MINSTRELSY.

music, classical, yet not laboriously and uselessly learned,in a form and at a price which will deter none from becoming purchasers.

Each Monthly Part will contain from Four to Six, or more Pieces of Music, varying in number according to their length, together with literary and biographical notices of the composers, and of the authors of the poetry adapted, and will consist of twenty pages, music folio size. The work is printed on a supe rior paper, and sold for EIGHTEEN-PENCE each Monthly Part. No. I. CONTAINS:

The exclusive nature of nearly all our existing collections of Sacred Music, renders the present undertaking particularly desirable; compositions of this class, could they be procured in a familiar form, and on reasonable terms, would share the patronage of the public, which is now almost wholly bestowed on works of a secular kind. These desiderata it is intended to supply, and thus place within reach of families, and of amateurs unaccustomed to playing from score, really good, practical

1. AIR..... O Come, let us Worship, and fall down
2. ANTHEM..... Prepare ye the Way of the Lord
3. ANTHEM..... Behold! I bring you glad Tidings

HANDEL.
MICHAEL WISE
DR. GREENE.

5. SACRED SONG The Lord, the Almighty Monarch, spake BEETHOVEN.
6. AIR........
Eternal Ruler of the Skies.
7. SOLO, (M.S.) Hear my Praye

No. II.

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MOZART.
DR. DUPUIS.

1. TRIO....... In God's Name will I rejoice.......
2. DUET
Of Stars how fairest

3. ANTHEM....
4. DUET
5. SACRED SONG

O come hither and hearken
O Hold thou me up

...

Yon Abbey Bell, so full and swelling 6. CHORA'L.... Come, O come, with Sacred Lays....

PURCELL. HAYDN. NARES.

MARCELLO.

FRENCH CLASS BOOKS,

EDITED BY

L. T. VENTOUILLAC,

PROFESSOR OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE TO KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.

MORCEAUX D'HISTOIRE.

This little work consists of Extracts from the best French
Historians, such as Bossuet, Montesquieu, Rollin, Barthélémy,
Vertot, Hénault, St. Réal, Sismondi, Mignet, &c. The his
torical information which this work affords, the various styles of
composition it exhibits, and the unexceptionable character of it
contents, render it peculiarly fit for the instruction of youth.
Price 3s. 6d.
IV.

FRENCH POETRY, WITH ENGLISH
NOTES.

For the use of the Junior Pupils in King's College-School.
A NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.

25.

The above Works are used in King's College-School, London.