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Proprium missae Songs of Mass with their own texts, according to the celebra-
tion of the Day: introito; gradual (gradual responsory); tract;
alleluia; offertory; communion antiphon (communio).
Psalm Biblical poetic composition included in the Book of Psalms
(Psalter) of the Old Testament.
Psalmody The singing of psalms, collected in the Psalter.
Psalter 1. Liturgical book that gathers together the 150 biblical psalms
attributed to King David. The oldest Latin drafts date back to
the Vetus Latin and the Roman Psalter, which have offered the
most archaic textual materials of the Roman Rite and songs.
The Roman Psalter, written by Saint Jerome around the year
384, is the first of three Latin versions of the Psalms. The
second version is called the Gallican Psalter, as it was first
adopted in Gaul. The third is translated from the Hebrew:
Juxta hebraeos Psalter. In the Carolingian period the Gallican
Psalter took over, and definitively stated itself in the Roman-
Franciscan rite in the thirteenth century. The Psalters often
include a hymnary (Hymnal-Psalter). 2. Stringed musical in-
strument. In the biblical version of the Septuagint and in the
Vulgata it translates the Hebrew term nebel.
Punctum Neum constituted by a single note, tending to the grave. It is
present in codex P. XIII, Hymnal-Psalter of the Cathedral of
Oristano (fourteenth/fifteenth century or the first half of the
fifteenth century), in some hymns, in the dual form of punc-
tum inclinatum and punctum quadratum , indicating,
respectively, a short (∪) and long (−) duration. Acatalettic
iambic dimeter.
Puntum inclinatum.
Punctum
Puntum quadratum.
Punctum
Responsory Song performed after a reading. The responsory is long (re-
sponsorium prolixum) during the nocturns, while in the four
minor Hours (Liturgy of the Hours) it is short (responsorium
breve). In the codices, it normally has the tripartite scheme:
response / verse / repetenda.
Rhythmic Office.
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