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| Williamajcole | Aug 6 2015, 08:22 PM Post #1 |
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Hi Emma (or others!), Would it be possible to have an exact definition of an alleluiaticum? I'm a bit confused... Thanks, Will |
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| Emma Hornby | Aug 7 2015, 03:08 PM Post #2 |
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An alleluiaticum is an antiphon with lots of alleluias in it. We get them in the daily office, and they appear always in the same formal position in each of those offices (so, in vespers, we get one or two antiphons and then an alleluiaticum, in a set together; in the dawn office, we get one or more sets of four chants which go antiphon-antiphon-alleluiaticum-responsory and so on) It all gets a little bit awkward in Lent, when they don't sing "alleluia". They still have a chant in that formal position, but without the "alleluias", Some scribes label them as "antiphon" and others label them as "alleluiaticum", and it's really easy to imagine the pedantic discussions that went on in those medieval choirs about precise definition of the genre
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| Williamajcole | Aug 7 2015, 03:10 PM Post #3 |
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Great - clear as a bell! Thanks very much. Will |
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