GRADUALE SARISBURIENSE xlix
NOTE ON THE ORDINARIUM MISS/E
The various Sarum Graduals agree in the main in the contents of the Ordinary. All
have the same selection of farsed Kyries, but b gives the Kyrie without words after the
farsing line by line, no doubt because in early times each petition was sung twice over,
without the farsing as well as with it: cp. the method of singing the proses of the
Responds at Mattins or processions.
PI. it— The first plain Kyrie is known as Rex clemens, and is so entitled in A.
PI. 8^-b has no " Kyrie deus sempiterne," but has " Omnipotens" here ; and in
other respects this MS. and A.N.B. 1: vary in their selection of plain Kyries; some
have more and some less than are here.
PI. i r^—b has a farsing to this Gloria, viz. " Regnum tuum solidum," which is
common in early Graduals, but there is pitched a fifth too high (cp. IV. Eth., Cat.
Corp), but Dub. has it to the second Gloria in Excelsis on pi. 12, and at the right
pitch.
The rest of the Ordinary is in the main the same : but He. gives only the cues of
Gloria in Excelsis; N. is not so full as this; in MS. Add. 12,194 au* is wanting except the
Sanctuses and Agnuses; on the other hand A. has two extra Agnuses and B. an extra
Benedicamus.
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