Grove's dictionary of music and musicians

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74 RESPONSORIAL PSALMODY EESPONSOEIAL PSALMODY
pneuma or melisma. There are in all fifteen
diflerent texts set to this scheme of music ; the
Justus lit palTna is given here as being the best
representative of the group ; but in two of the
divisions another text is given as well, in order
to reveal the structure the more clearly.
I. h- ^ . , i . .
i^ Jus tus ut pal • ina floT
Gloria patri as well, in the early shape in which
it consisted of one phrase, not two. Further, it
became customary in France to repeat after the
Verse not the whole of the respond but only a
part of it ; and this custom spread till it was
universal.
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bit
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Sicut ce
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III.
Ti^ri^^^i^^z; 3.,]Mi4 ,
Mul bi - tar
IV.
dens d« tha
^ Ad an -nun - tl • an - diim
- i (BL lue noD luerint do-ml
ii^=^=a^-p^^^^^'^'^^
mo su - o
I» - mo Do-mi -ni)
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VI.
. «8 » .. »fl«
:K^TCTtm^>\ .
VII.
«e - li - cor - di • >m
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In do-
(Pro-ce
^^r^S^l^i^^JMsf^-
(Cp. III.)
VIII.
(Op. IV.) Ptr . .
The same plan holds good with the responds
of the Office which are found for the most part
in the service of Mattins. It is visible more
plainly in the verses of the responds than in
the responds themselves. Those of the Office
use a set of invariable psalm -melodies, one
belonging to each mode ; in these the monotone
is very clear, and yet there is much elaboration
in the cadences, and the forms are so plastic
that they can by certain well-defined rules be
readily adapted to the various texts of the
verses. (See Psalmody.) The Graduals in the
mass do not utilise these common foi-ms for
their Verses ; each Verse is peculiar to the
Gradual ; but even so there is much similarity
observable amongst them both in general structure
and in detail. In exceptional cases even
the responds of the Oflice have their Verses set
to a special melody and not to the common one.
As regards liturgical (as distinct from musical)
structure the respond of the Office is like
the gradual -respond of the Mass, but not
identical. In neither case is it common now
to find more than one Verse, but the respond
in the Office is often accompanied by the
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The following respond, then, which belongs
to Mattins of the First Sunday in Advent and
stands at the head of the series, may be taken
as representing this form of composition in an
unusually full shape.
Three boys sing the Eespond
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As'pi - ul - eoa a Ion • ge ec - ce Ti-de •
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1 po-teu-ti - am Te-iii-en
--Mi^1^;^aSIf^-J>^-^^-if
- tern, et ne-bu lam IfO • tam ter-raiu te
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ni '*M \
tem. ^ X te ob vi
i, et di • ci • te
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