APPENDIX.

THE TONES FOR THE CONFITEOR, PRAYERS, EPISTLE, AND GOSPEL.

CONFITEOR.

Con-fi-te- or De-o om-ni-po-ten-ti, Be-a-tæ Mar-ri-æ

sem-per Vir-gi- ni, bea-to Mi-cha-e-li Arch-an-ge-lo,

be-a

- to Jo-an-ni Bap-tis-tæ, sanc-tis A-pos-to-lis

Pe-tro et Pau-lo, om-ni-bus sanc-tis, et ti-bi Pa-ter:

qui-a pec-ca- vi ni-mis co-gi-ta-ti-o-ne, ver-bo, et

o-pe-re: me a cul-pa, me-a cul-pa, me-a max-i-ma

cul-pa. I-de-o pre-cor Beatam Ma-ri-am sem-per Vir-gi-nem,

be -a-tum Mi-cha-e-lem Arch-an-ge-lum, be-a-tum Joannem

Baptistam,sanctos A-pos-to-los Petrum et Paulum, omnes sanctos,

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et te Pa-ter, o-ra-re pro me ad Dominum Deum nostrum.

THE PRAYERS.1

On Simples, Ferias, and in the Office of the Dead, the Prayer is sung entirely on one note, FA. On Doubles and Semidoubles, two inflections are used: the first, FA, MI, RE, FA, called the PUNCTUM PRINCIPALE; the second, Fa, MI, called the SEMIPUNCTUM. The Punctum and Semipunctum are used only once each in the same Prayer, however many the clauses, and once in the conclusion of the Prayer. The Punctum is sung first, and the Semipunctum second, in the Prayer; but in the conclusion of the Prayer, the Semipunctum first, and the punctum second. Thus :

Do-mi-nus vo-bis-cum, Et cum spi-ri-tu tu - o.

0- -re-mus. De-us, qui ho-di-er-nam di-em A-pos-to

lo-rum tu-o-rum Pe - tri et Pau-li mar-ty - ri - o

PUNCTUM PRINCIPALE.

con-se-cras-ti: da Ec- cle- si-æ tu

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-æ e-o-rum in

Regulare est autem, ut in

1 The Rubric of the Ceremonial says, utroque tono, voce gravi et competenti, interposita aliqua mora in fine cuiuslibet, clausulæ, et præsertim in clausula finali, ac cum decore et gravitate recitentur orationes."

SEMIPUNCTUM.

om-ni-bus se-qui præ-cep-tum: per quos re-li - gi - o- nis

sump-sit ex - or -di-um. Per Do-mi-num nos-trum Je-sum

Christum fi-li- um tu-um, qui te-cum vi - vit

et

reg-nat in

u-ni-ta-te Spi-ri-tus Sanc-ti De-us,

A-men.

per om-ni-a sæ-cu-la sæ-cu- lo- rum. When the Prayer concludes with Qui vivis or Qui tecum, the Punctum only is used, as above in Spiritus Sancti Deus.

Besides the Punctum and Semipunctum, a third ferial inflection on the penultimate syllable from FA to RE is used for the Prayers at the end of the Divine Office;1 as, after Complin, at the Anthem of the B. V., at the Burial of the Dead, at the end of the Litanies, and at Benediction. Thus :

Concede mi-se-ri-cors De-us fragili- ta - ti

nos-træ

præ-si-di-um ut qui Sanc-tæ De-i

ge-ni-tri- cis

a-gi-mus: in- ter- ces-si-o- nis e - jus

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me-mo-ri-am

According to the Rubric, this third tone is exclusively used for Versicles and Prayers of the Dead, out of Mass of the Dead. (Carem. Epis. lib. i. cap. 27.)

au-xi-li-o a nostris i-ni-qui-ta- ti-bus re-sur-ga-mus.

Per e-un-dem Christum Do-mi-num nos-trum. A-men.
Per
Christum Do-mi-num nos-trum.

is sung on one note, except an inflection when an interrogation occurs, and one at the end. The fourth syllable before a period is a good deal prolonged, signified by this mark Thus :

Lec- ti-o Libri Sa - pi - en - ti - æ. Beatus vir

qui in-ven- tus est si - ne ma-cu-la: et qui post

au-rum non a-bi-it, nec spe-ra-vit in

pe-cu- ni - a

et the-sau-ris. Quis est, hic, et lau-da- bi-mus e- um ?

THE GOSPEL

admits of an inflection from the dominant on the fourth syllable, this being made emphatic and prolonged, before a period, or note of interrogation, and on the fifth syllable from the end. Thus :

Do-mi-nus vo-bis-cum. Et cum spiritu

tu - 0.

V. Se-quen-ti - a Sancti E-van- ge- li i

se-cun-dum

Pe-trus ad Je-sum. Ec - ce nos re-li-qui-mus om-ni-a,

WERTHEIMER, LEA, AND CO., PRINTERS, FINSBURY CIRCUS, LONDON.