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>Now, here is the text of the Easter Sequence:
>Victimae paschali laudes immolent Christiani.
>Agnus redemit oves: Christus innocens Patri reconciliavit peccatores.
>Mors et vita duello conflixere mirando: dux vitae mortuus, regnat vivus.
>Dic nobis, Maria, quid vidisti in via?
>Sepulchrum Christi viventis: et gloriam vidi resurgentis.
>Angelicos testes, sudarium, et vestes.
>Surrexit Christus spes mea: praecedet vos in Galilaeam.
>Scimus Christum surrexisse a mortuis vere: tu nobis, victor Rex, miserere.
>Amen. Alleluia.
The text is traditionally attributed to Wipo of Burgundy (d. 1050). It is one of
the four sequences retained after the Council of Trent. It has a wonderful
melody.
The version Bill gave is the modern, sanitized version of the sequence; it lacks
the paired line of the last versicle, before 'Scimus Christum':
Credendum est magis soli Marie veraci, quam Judeorum turbe fallaci.
Since this line appears in medieval and Renaissance motet settings of the
sequence (there is a famous one by Josquin, which has the music of two French
songs in the upper voice), it has sometimes proved problematic in modern
performances.
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