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Acroteleutic :: Acroteleutic (n.) The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to be sung by the people, by way of a response..

Venite :: Venite (n.) The 95th Psalm, which is said or sung regularly in the public worship of many churches. Also, a musical composition adapted to this Psalm..

Chant :: Chant (v. t.) A psalm, etc., arranged for chanting..

Tune :: Tune (n.) A rhythmical, melodious, symmetrical series of tones for one voice or instrument, or for any number of voices or instruments in unison, or two or more such series forming parts in harmony; a melody; an air; as, a merry tune; a mournful tune; a slow tune; a psalm tune. See Air..

Psalmist :: Psalmist (n.) A clerk, precentor, singer, or leader of music, in the church..

Miserere :: Miserere (n.) The psalm usually appointed for penitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the Latin version. It commences with the word miserere..

Psalm :: Psalm (n.) Especially, one of the hymns by David and others, collected into one book of the Old Testament, or a modern metrical version of such a hymn for public worship..

Jubilate :: Jubilate (n.) A name of the 100th Psalm; -- so called from its opening word in the Latin version.

Psalmody :: Psalmody (n.) The act, practice, or art of singing psalms or sacred songs; also, psalms collectively, or a collection of psalms..

Introit :: Introit (n.) A part of a psalm or other portion of Scripture read by the priest at Mass immediately after ascending to the altar.

Acrostic :: Acrostic (n.) A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.

Psalmodic :: Psalmodic (a.) Alt. of Psalmodica.

Psalmographist :: Psalmographist (n.) A writer of psalms, or sacred songs and hymns..

Gloria :: Gloria (n.) A doxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches..

Psalmist :: Psalmist (n.) A writer or composer of sacred songs; -- a title particularly applied to David and the other authors of the Scriptural psalms.

Jubilate :: "Jubilate (n.) The third Sunday after Easter; -- so called because the introit is the 66th Psalm, which, in the Latin version, begins with the words, ""Jubilate Deo."".

Psalmograph :: Psalmograph (n.) A writer of psalms; a psalmographer.

Psalmography :: Psalmography (n.) The act or practice of writing psalms, or sacred songs..

Intonation :: Intonation (n.) Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t..

Chant :: Chant (v. t.) A short and simple melody, divided into two parts by double bars, to which unmetrical psalms, etc., are sung or recited. It is the most ancient form of choral music..

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