Excerpt from On Early English Pronunciation, With Especial Reference to Shakspere and Chaucer, Vol. 2: Containing an Investigation of the Correspondence of Writing With Speech in England, From the Anglosaxon Period to the Present Day, Preceded by a Systematic Notation of All Spoken Sounds by Means of the Ordinary Printing TypesThe cuckoo song and prisoner' s prayer, which stand first, have their antiquity well established, and possess the great advantage of a contemporary musical setting, which 18 Of considerable assistance in determmm g the pronunciation or elision of the final e. AS the old notation of music re quires especial study to read, faithful translations into the modern notation, preserving exactly the number and pitch of the notes, have been printed. This 18 precisely similar to reducing the manuscript letters to the form of Roman types, extending the contractions and pointing. In the first piece the time of each note is accurately determined In the original, and is strictly observed in the transcript. In the second, which Is in plain chant, this Is not the case, and hence such time has been assigned as was suggested by a careful ex amination of the notes in connection with the words.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.