The Accomplished SINGER.INSTRUCTIONS FIRST, HOW the PIETY of SINGING WITH A True DEVOTION, may be obtained and expressed; the Glorious GOD after an uncommon manner Glorified in it, and His PEOPLE Edified.AND THEN, HOW the MELODY of REGULAR SINGING, and the SKILL of doing it, according to the RULES of it, may be easily arrived unto.DEI Laudes Cancre et Audire Jucundum sit, Haec est Voluptas vera; quae comes et Socia Virtutis est. Lactant. Instit. Lib. 6. C. 21.BOSTON: Printed by B. Green, for S. Gerrish at his Shop in Cornhill. 1721.Title page of The accomplished singer. Instructions how the piety of singing with a true devotion, may…, Boston, 1721The accomplished singer. Instructions how the piety of singing with a true devotion, may…Cotton Mather, 1721

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The Accomplished SINGER.

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INSTRUCTIONS FIRST, HOW the PIETY of SINGING WITH A True DEVOTION, may be obtained and expressed; the Glorious GOD after an uncommon manner Glorified in it, and His PEOPLE Edified.

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AND THEN, HOW the MELODY of REGULAR SINGING, and the SKILL of doing it, according to the RULES of it, may be easily arrived unto.

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DEI Laudes Cancre et Audire Jucundum sit, Haec est Voluptas vera; quae comes et Socia Virtutis est. Lactant. Instit. Lib. 6. C. 21.

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BOSTON: Printed by B. Green, for S. Gerrish at his Shop in Cornhill. 1721.

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