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Excerpt from The New Harmonia Sacra: A Compilation of Genuine Church Music, Comprising a Great Variety of Metres, Harmonized for Four Voices; Together With a Copious Explication of the Principles of Vocal Music; Exemplified and Illustrated With Tables, in a Plain and Comprehensive Manner The stafi' consists of five lines and four spaces. Each line. And each space is called a degree of sound; thus there are nine. Degrees of sound on the staff. When more than nine degrees are wanted. The spaces below and above the staff are used; and if a still greater compass is wanted, additional lines are used, called leger or added lines. 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.