Exempel på psalm

• This rhetoric clearly endowed the king's body with wider symbolic significance, and this transformation is equally implicit in his own translation of the psalms.

• Singing psalms in this manner rendered them plain, since the antiphon was more florid than the repetitive psalm-tone used to sing the verses.

• The framework of antiphons and psalms, lessons and responsories is preserved, but the psalms and lessons are truncated.

• They called the psalm between the lessons a 'reading' even when it was unambiguously sung.

• This fourfold alleluia resembles the alleluia antiphons derived from normally texted antiphons; the psalm tone is comparable to the normal second psalm tone.

• Moreover, the phrase would have been heard in the singing of the psalm itself.

• In the other manuscripts the antiphon has no differentia or psalm verse.

• Rather, it must have been performed monophonically in the simple psalm tone of chant.

• Here the precentors are sitting, and they alternate with one another, two together alternately intoning the psalms, very pleasantly and magnificently.

• It may be noted that psalm 3 is sung before the invitatory, as prescribed by the monastic use.

• Six others have verses sung only to a psalm tone, and one omits its verses entirely.

• It is not clear whether some psalms have been omitted (109 and 113 are sung).

• To imagine what this psalm might be like, it is useful first to view the general context.

• There remains, therefore, only one psalm to track down.

• The texts of all but two of the antiphons are taken from the same psalms.