medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Terrill Heaps wrote:
> Bill East wrote:
>
>>> In the Sarum Calendar, a Simple feast with double Invitatory.
>>
>> Again, might I enquire how a double Invitatory works? We certainly
>> do not have such things nowadays. Do you sing one and then the other,
>> or are they alternatives? What exactly is meant?
>
> A "Double Invitatory" makes no sense to me, either, if the Psalm 95
> "canticle," (the "Venite, exultemus Domino") is what is meant by
> "Invitatory." What I _suspect_ is that there is a confusion of
> terminology.
I've already replied to this (under "saints of the day 20. January"). It
refers to the number of singers who sing the Invitatory. Another way of
classifying feasts is according to the number of lessons at Matins: feasts
with rulers generally (there are exceptions) have nine lessons at Matins,
except during Eastertide, when they have three. Feasts without rulers have
three lessons at Matins.
John Briggs
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