Attende Domine: What genre?
  • bgeorge77
    Posts: 190
    So I notice that "Attende Domine" has a repeated refrain. Is it somehow different than a typical hymn like one would find in the Divine Office? What was its original liturgical place? Does anyone know how old it is or composer info?

    Thanks!
  • chonakchonak
    Posts: 9,211
    The genre is a "prose", comparable to "Rorate caeli" for Advent. This page says is based on a Mozarabic litany and dates to the 10th century.
  • awruff
    Posts: 94
    In text, maybe.
    The melody is late medieval, I recall. I think French but I'd have to look it up.
    awr
  • Earl_GreyEarl_Grey
    Posts: 903
    In what context was this hymn originally sung? And where is it best suited in today's liturgy?
  • ClemensRomanusClemensRomanus
    Posts: 1,023
    I think the Variae Preces lists it as from the Liturgia Gothica.
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