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The seventeenth-century system in which New England church leaders sang each line of a psalm, and the congregation repeated it back, is called _____.3

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Lining-out

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Lining out, also called hymn lining, referred to as precenting the line in Scotland, is a type of hymnody or a form of cappella hymn-singing in which a head, often referred to as the clerk or precentor, gives every line of a hymn tune the way it is to be sung, typically in a chanted format giving or signifying the tune.

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