This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...to render accurately. The Alleluia is still sometimes prolonged to forty or fifty notes; in early times it was repeated to above a hundred, with the purpose of allowing the deacon's procession for the Gospel, starting from the altar, to reach the ambon or "pulpit" after the Epistoler left it. Notker then made ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...to render accurately. The Alleluia is still sometimes prolonged to forty or fifty notes; in early times it was repeated to above a hundred, with the purpose of allowing the deacon's procession for the Gospel, starting from the altar, to reach the ambon or "pulpit" after the Epistoler left it. Notker then made up sense or words (prosas ad Sequentiam) to these approved neumes or j'ubila, trying as far as possible to use words in which the vowels ia preponderate e.g. "Psallat ecclesziz, mater illtbata"; "Ew recolamus laudi'bus pit's digna "), but what he was singing could not fail to be detected; and he was encouraged in his compositions not only by his cronies Ratpert and Tutilo, but by Iso his master, and by the Emperor Charles the Fat, who stayed a few days in the monastery of St. Gall, and exchanged musical compositions with the Benedictines. Mr. Mearns attributes seventy extant sequences to Notker with considerable confidence, and thirty-seven others with hesitation.1 The example of St. Gall was followed, and Adam, of St. Victor (Paris), composed five, cir. 1130-77. Among the ten authors of sequences whose names are found attached to their compositions more than half are Englishmen, viz. the Prior of Montacute (? Walter, cir. mo), Gervase of Gloucester (1148), Gervase of Chichester (1160), Richard the Monk (Abp. of Cant., 1171), Robert?prior 1173) of Winchester, and Robert of York, cir. 1240 (Julian, Diet. Hymn., p. 1043). Although only four sequences are now admitted in the Roman Missal, there are above a thousand extant of these remarkable compositions, which probably owe their name to the common formula in which, immediately after the prose or sequence had been sung, the deacon ordinarily2 announced in what...
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