All this renders very probable the conjecture generally entertained by hymnologists, that the Dies Irae was composed by a Franciscan in the thirteenth century. 49), Italian, like the others: вЂњToutes trois enfin appartenant egalement a, la liturgie des Freres MineursвЂќ. Father Clop describes also a third contemporary MS. The second edition of Julian (1907) mentions the Naples MS. Franciscan Missal of 1477 the first edition of JulianвЂ™s вЂњDictionary of HymnologyвЂќ (1892) declared the вЂњoldest form known to the present timeвЂќ to be found in a Dominican Missal вЂњwritten at the end of the fourteenth century and apparently for use at PisaвЂњ Warren, in his вЂњDies IraeвЂќ ( London, 1902, p. Thus Mone found none anterior to the fifteenth century Chevalier mentions only a Magdeburg Missal of 1480 and a MS. which, until recently, hymnologists had cognizance of when they attempted to fix the probable authorship of the sequence. Into his arguments it is not necessary to enter here but it is important to notice that these dates are much anterior to the dates of the MSS. 48, 49) a still earlier date (1250) to a copy of the Dies Irae inserted at the end of a so-called вЂњ Breviary of St. Clare, who was canonized in 1255, and whose name would have been inserted if the MS. 49) argues a date between 1253-1255 for the MS.-a Franciscan Missal whose calendar does not contain the name of St. Father Eusebius Clop, O.F.M., in the вЂњRevue du Chant GregorienвЂќ (November-December, 1907, p. Haberl, Magister Choralis, Ratisbon, 1900, pp. This Missal text of the sequence is found, with slight verbal variations, in a thirteenth-century manuscript in the Biblioteca Nazionale at Naples (cf. The Vatican edition (1907) of the plain-chant melody, however, apparently takes account of the fact that the last six lines did not, in all probability, originally belong to the sequence, and divides them into three couplets. Thus the last two stanzas are printed in the typical (1900) edition of the Missal, and in the Ratisbon edition of the plain-chant setting. The remaining stanzas discard the scheme of triple rhymes in favor of rhymed couplets, while the last two lines use assonance instead of rhyme and are, moreover, catalectic: It comprises nineteen stanzas, of which the first seventeen follow the type of the first stanza: 201).ДЄs found in the Roman Missal, the Dies Irw is a Latin poem of fifty-seven lines in accentual (non-quantitative), rhymed, trochaic metre.

American Ecclesiastical Review, August, 1907, p. From this fact may be inferred that the more ancient rule is now in force and that the whole sequence must either be sung by the choir or be вЂњre-citedвЂќ in a high and clear voice with organ accompaniment (cf. It should be noted here that the decree of the Congregation of Sacred Rites (August 12, 1854) permitting the choir to omit such stanzas as do not contain a prayer is not included in the new edition of the вЂњDecreta Authentica S. Its recitation in other requiem Masses ( In Missis quotidianis defunctorum) is optional with the celebrant. The rubrics of the Roman Missal prescribe the recitation of the sequence by the celebrant on the following occasions: (I) in the Mass of All SoulsвЂ™ Day ( In commemorations Omnium Fidelium Defunctorum) (2) in funeral Masses ( In die obitus seu depositions defuncti) and (3) whensoever in requiem Masses, only one oratio, or collect, is to be said, namely in the anniversary Mass, and when Mass is solemnly celebrated on the third, the seventh, or the thirtieth (monthвЂ™s mind) day after death or burial. They are the opening words of the first verse: Dies irae, dies illa. Dies Irae.-the name by which the sequence in requiem Masses is commonly known.

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