This is an interesting hymnal from 1859. It's got some kind of foreword about sacred composition, which I can't read because it's in French. It seems to show certain ways of composition are "bon" and others "vicieux".
Anyway, some of the music is by Lambillotte himself, most of it is by other French guys. The hymns seem pretty straightforward, and they all have choral setting with organ. The first verse is set to the music, but the other verses follow the score. Some saints' day hymns are included.
Oh, and the Choix book above also has the first known printed instance of the tune of "Angels We Have Heard on High". The "musique" thing seems to mean the arrangement or the transcription, and not necessarily the tune itself. (I don't do French, much less French music book conventions of the past.)
"R.P. Lambillotte" stands for "Reverend Pere" (Father) Lambillotte, and P. Lambillotte stands for "Pere Lambillotte". But J. Lambillotte is his brother Joseph.
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