Attende Domini

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edbowie
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Attende Domini

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Can anyone provide details of the authorship/history of the Lent Prose? Is it Gregorian Chant?

Thanks.

Ed
festivaltrumpet
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Re: Attende Domini

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A brief search suggests it is a Mozarabic hymn from the 10th century. It certainly belongs to the chant genre.
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Forgive the ignorance - what's Mozarabic? I quite like it in English as in Hymns ancient and modern.
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organist wrote:Forgive the ignorance - what's Mozarabic? I quite like it in English as in Hymns ancient and modern.

One assumes a Mozarabic hymn is one which has its origins in the Mozarabic Rite.
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This penitential hymn is based on a 10th century Mozarabic Litany for the Lenten Season.

I looked up Mozarabic and it one of the oldest Latin rites covering France and Spain. Attende Domine.
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