medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I'll have a dig for a pre-Ref text of this. The
commonest practice in hymn composition (on such
evidence as has survived the Reformation) is that
alternate verses were set to polyphony and the others
sung to plainsong.
I have somewhere a reference (I suspect in Harrison's
Music in Medieval Britain) to the accepted practice
also being to sing the doxology to the plainsong,
irrespective of whether it was an odd or even verse.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Rob
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