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from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as neume.
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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
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'Moris enim fuit, ut post Alleluia cantaretur neuma; nominatur autem neuma cantus qui sequebatur Alleluia.'
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Towards the end of the neuma on tuam (where in the MS. the neums surmount the second syllable) the staff notation substitutes a pes subbipunctis for a virga and climacus – a mere graphic difference.
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The episematic torculus is seen in the final neuma of nobis (before the first trigon).
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Thus at the end of the Alleluia neuma it joins the virga to form a clivis, and at the end of the neuma on nobis the podatus of the MS. is changed into a torculus.
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Alleluia (third sign); and third, with a more elaborate gravis, as in the final neuma of nobis (second last sign).
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Of interest is the disappearance of the quilisma at the end of the final neuma, also the substitution of c for b on florebit at the end of the group on per
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The first sign in the same neuma is also an episematic torculus followed by another long punctum.
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This is also sometimes used for one of the puncta of the climacus (first syllable of tuam, third and sixth neums, etc.) and towards the end of the group neuma on nobis (fifth sign from the end) we see a trigon subpuncte, the last dot of the trigon and the added punctum being drawn out.
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The clivis with episema to the first note is found on the first syllable of tuam (first sign) and twice towards the end of the neuma on tuum.
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