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DICTIONARY OF MUSIC - El Atril

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HYMN HYMN 453<br />

such cases both came from the same source.<br />

But melodies werenot ahvayslinked permanently<br />

to the words with which they were first con-<br />

nected. Tlius the tune universally associated<br />

with the Vcni Creator had in earlier days belonged<br />

to S. Ambrose's Easter hymn itic est<br />

dies vcrus Dei. On the other hand, it seems<br />

clear that the tunes of Vexilla regis prodeunt<br />

and 2'atige lingua gloi'iosi praelium certaviinis<br />

must spring from the same occasion which produced<br />

the words, viz. the translation of the<br />

relics of the Cross to Queen Rhadegund's monas-<br />

tery at Poitiers, Nov. 19, 569.<br />

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