lesser doxology

  • 21Gloria Patri — /glawr ee euh pah tree, glohr / the short hymn Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Also called lesser doxology. [ < L] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 22choral music — ▪ vocal music Introduction       music sung by a choir with two or more voices assigned to each part. Choral music is necessarily polyphonal i.e., consisting of two or more autonomous vocal (vocal music) lines. It has a long history in European&#8230; …

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  • 23Canticle — • Used in the English Catholic translation of the Bible as the equivalent of the Vulgate canticum in most, but not all, of the uses of that word; for where canticum is used for a sacred song Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Canticle&#8230; …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 24Deus in Adjutorium — (Lat. God come to my assistance, Psalm 70)    Versicle that opens all the divine offices of the Roman Catholic rite with the exception of matins, where it follows directly on other opening prayers. The lesser doxology (Gloria patri . . .) follows …

    Historical dictionary of sacred music

  • 25Nunc Dimittis —    One of the three Gospel canticles for the major divine offices of the Roman Catholic liturgy, known as the Canticle of Simeon (St. Luke 2: 29–32;), sung at compline in the Roman rite and at Evening prayer in the Anglican rite. In the Gregorian …

    Historical dictionary of sacred music

  • 26Gloria Patri —    Meaning Glory to the Father, the first words of the short anthem used after each Psalm and elsewhere in the services, viz. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,&#8230; …

    American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  • 27Gloria Patri — [pä′trē] n. [L] glory (be) to the Father: first words of the lesser doxology …

    English World dictionary

  • 28rosary — [rō′zər ē] n. pl. rosaries [ME rosarie &LT; L rosarium, rose garden (in ML, rosary, garland of roses) &LT; neut. of rosarius, of roses &LT; rosa,ROSE1] 1. R.C.Ch. a) a string of five (sometimes fifteen) sets of beads (one large bead and ten small …

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  • 29Gloria Patri — /glawr ee euh pah tree, glohr / the short hymn Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Also called lesser doxology. [ &LT; L] * * * gloria&#8230; …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 30e|vo|vae — «ee VOH vee», noun. in Gregorian music: 1. the trope at the end of the melody for the lesser doxology. 2. any trope …

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