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  • In the typical edition of the new OHS, every time the Passion is mentioned, the rubric says “cantatur vel legitur”, “proceditur ad cantum vel lectionem”.

    Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 2 - The Masses of Palm Sunday, Holy Tuesday and Spy Wednesday 2009

  • Unde et ipsa uocibus minime parcens assidue cantabat, nec leuem consciencie sue iacturam reputabat, si quando raucitatis uel alicuius infirmitatis incommodo interueniente, sollempnem psalmodie cantum minus alacriter persoluisset.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

  • He avoided large-scale works, writing no cyclic masses and only one isorhythmic motet Nove cantum melodie.

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  • In about 1426 Binchois joined the Burgundian court of Philip the Good, and one of his few datable works is the motet Nove cantum melodie for the baptism of the Burgundian Prince Anthoine in January 1431.

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  • One of the oldest documents on the subject of tarantism, Ferdinando Ponzetti's Sertum Papale De Venensis (1362), had suggested that the victims of shade-dwelling spiders were hostages to the music of the tarantula's bite, to its 'cantum tempore'.

    Boing Boing: January 29, 2006 - February 4, 2006 Archives 2006

  • Tacitus, informs us, I say, that Andronicus, being hoarse while singing in the interludes, got another to sing for him while he executed the dance; and thence came the custom of dividing interludes between dancers and singers: “Dicitur cantum egisse magis vigente motu quum nihil vocis usis impediebat.”

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Illí autem aliquantum itineris prógressí ad víllam quandam pervénérunt summá mágnificentiá aedificátam, cúius ad óstium cum adiissent, cantum dulcissimum audívérunt.

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • Novi ego, scilicet Gascoigne, doctor sacræ paginæ qui hæc scripsi, unum magnum et notabilem virum talem cantum turpem in festo

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • TVM autem lasciuum Nerei simum pecus ludens ad cantum classem lustratur choro. ii

    Dramatic Fragments 1912

  • The old Albanian guitar of nine strings has already died out, and the double tibia -- _biforem dat tibia cantum -- _will presently follow suit.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

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