Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medieval musical notation, a ligature which represents an ascending step or skip. Also called
pes .
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In my opinion, one of the most important things to know - and one of the only things you can't figure out on your own without hearing the music - is the "podatus."
Tone 1 bls 2006
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In my opinion, one of the most important things to know - and one of the only things you can't figure out on your own without hearing the music - is the "podatus."
Archive 2006-07-01 bls 2006
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This is considered as indicating a long form of the podatus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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We only notice that on gaudent and angeli the MS. adds a liquescent note to the podatus and porrectus subbipunctis, and on celebrantes has twice a porrectus for the strophic clivis, which suggests that the apostropha (oriscus) was sung slightly higher than the last note of the clivis, as mentioned above.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Similarly on do a porrectus and virga are replaced by a clivis and podatus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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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.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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On palma the MS. gives a liquescent note, on the first syllable of adnunciandum it has a podatus (a c, or d f, as this notation should be read a fifth lower) instead of a single note; in the last, a podatus instead of an epiphonus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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In the podatus the gravis is a short horizontal stroke, the acutus a straight virga joining almost at a right angle; see third syllable of Gratia, third of salutifere, third of dogmata, etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Thus the liquescent podatus is called epiphonus, the liquescent clivis, cephalicus, the liquescent climacus, ancus.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Mention was made of a disjoint podatus in connexion with the first illustration.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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