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The Alleluiatic Sequence.
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word—of the verſion was carefully fitted to the muſic, and the length of the lines correſponds to the length of each troparion in the original."
"If it be ſaid that the original melody is difficult, I can only reply that I have frequently heard it ſung by a choir of children, of ages varying from four to fourteen; and never more prettily than when, without any accompaniment at all, in the open fields—the very ſmall ones joining in for the greater part with the whole of their little energy."—Mediæval Hymns.
