Latin Hymnody

The sequence has a rather better claim to be connected with our modern vernacular hymnody than has the Office hymn, though its trochaic rhythm has been less widely used than the iambic rhythm Of the Long or Common metres: for in the mediaeval mss. There are occasionally to be found English versions of known or apparently lost sequences; but I can recall no instance of a Breviary hymn being trans lated into English for musical use earlier than the time of Cranmer.

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