Something I always wondered about the Easter Alleluia.
  • RagueneauRagueneau
    Posts: 2,592
    When we sing the Alleluia during Eastertide, we place the "third" Alleluia (3 of 4) with the "second" musical composition.

    Why does Fr. Lasance group the "third" Alleluia (3 of 4) along with the first piece?

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    Why not write it like this?

    Allelúja, allelúja. Vs. Mittat vobis Dóminus auxílium de sancto: et de Sion tueátur vos.

    Allelúja. Vs. Benedícat vobis Dóminus ex Sion: qui fecit coelum et terram. Allelúja.

    In English:

    Alleluia, alleluia. Vs. May the Lord send you help from the sanctuary, and defend you out of Sion.

    Alleluia. Vs. May the Lord out of Sion bless you; He that made heaven and earth. Alleluia.
  • Protasius
    Posts: 468
    I don't know the Lasance missal, but in the most widespread hand missal in Germany, Graduale and Alleluja/Graduale and Tractus/Alleluja and Alleluja are always typeset as a single paragraph.
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  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,782
    Hand Missals usually take their text from the Missale Romanum, not the Graduale. Now in the Missale Romanum the text would be read by the priest as one text, so most hand Missals would also do the same, although the St. Andrew Missal does have them separate in some places but not others.
    Note the text in the Graduale is not always the same as that in the Missale Romanum!

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