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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Rom. Cath. music, the melodic coda often appended to the gradual, and sung to the last syllable of the “halleluiah.” See sequence. Also jubilus.

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  • This musical phrase (called variously neuma, jubilatio, jubilus, cantilena) is a very old and essential element of the Alleluia.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

  • Further, passing through the Greek iobelaios, or iobelos, the word became confused with the Latin jubilo, which means "to shout", and has given us the forms jubilatio and jubilaeum, now adopted in most

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Now I entered the little church that was quite empty, and where no sound would have been heard if the two voices in the tower had not continued to ring out over the dovecotes, where the white pigeons rested and wondered, and over the broad fields where the bending grasses and listening flowers stood in the afternoon sunshine, 'Laus et jubilatio,' in the language of the bells.

    Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

  • (or sequela, "that which follows"); synonymous terms are jubilus, jubilatio, neuma, melodia, as was later explained by Abbot Gerbert of

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

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