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DR. LOWELL MASON'S

CHURCH MUSIC.

+THE HALLELUJAH.+ A book for the Service of Song in the House of the Lord, containing tunes, chants, and anthems, both for the choir and congregation; to which is prefixed the Singing School, a manual for cla.s.ses in vocal music, with exercises, rounds, and part songs, for choir practice; also, Musical Notation in a Nut-sh.e.l.l; a brief course for singing-schools, intended for skillful teachers and apt pupils. By LOWELL MASON. $1. Do. cloth extra, $1 25.

The publication of this, Dr. Mason's last work, was looked for with great interest by the musical public, as he had enjoyed peculiar advantages, and bestowed extraordinary labor in its preparation. It has not disappointed the expectations with regard to it. Thus far it has proved the most successful work of its cla.s.s ever published, and it is believed that it will take its place by the side of "Carmina Sacra," by the same author, as a standard work in its department.

+CANTICA LAUDIS+; or, the American Book of Church Music; being chiefly a selection of chaste and elegant melodies from the most cla.s.sic authors, ancient and modern, with harmony parts; together with anthems and other set pieces for choirs and singing-schools; to which are added tunes for congregational singing. By LOWELL MASON and GEORGE JAMES WEBB. $1.

+THE CARMINA SACRA+; or, Boston Collection of Church Music, comprising the most popular psalm and hymn tunes in general use, together with a great variety of new tunes, chants, sentences, motetts, and anthems, princ.i.p.ally by distinguished European composers; the whole being one of the most complete collections of music for choirs, congregations, singing-schools, and societies extant. By LOWELL MASON. $1.

+NEW CARMINA SACRA+; or, Boston Collection of Church Music. This book is a careful and thorough revision of the favorite work heretofore published under the same t.i.tle. The object has been to retain the most valuable and universally pleasing part of the former work as the basis of the new, omitting such portions as experience had proved to be the least serviceable and popular, and subst.i.tuting choice tunes and pieces selected from the whole range of the author's previous works; appending, also, additional pages of entirely new and interesting music, from other sources. In its present form it undoubtedly comprises one of the best collections of sacred music ever published. $1.

*** More than 400,000 copies of the "Carmina Sacra" have been sold.

+THE BOSTON ACADEMY'S COLLECTION OF CHURCH MUSIC.+ By LOWELL MASON.

Published under direction of the Boston Academy of Music. $1.

+THE PSALTERY.+ A new Collection of Church Music. By LOWELL MASON and GEORGE J. WEBB. Published under the direction and with the sanction of the Boston Academy of Music, and of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society.

$1.

+THE NATIONAL PSALMIST.+ A collection of the most popular and useful Psalm and Hymn tunes, together with a great variety of new tunes, anthems, sentences, and chants--forming a most complete manual of church music for choirs, congregations, singing-cla.s.ses, and musical a.s.sociations. By LOWELL MASON and G. J. WEBB. $1.