List of genres

Displaying 1 - 59 of 59
Genre Description Mass / Office

A

Antiphon

Office

Ag

Agnus dei

Mass

Al

Alleluia

Mass

AlV

Alleluia verse

Mass

AV

Antiphon verse

Office

BD

Benedicamus domino

Mass, Office

Ca

Canticle

Mass, Office

Cap

Capitulum

Office

CaV

Canticle verse

Mass, Office

Cm

Communion

Mass

CmR

Versus ad repetendum for the communion

Mass

CmV

Communion verse

Mass

Cn

Cantio, Cantiones = songs in Latin or vernacular languages, most often occurring in later medieval and Renaissance liturgical books

Mass

Co

Collect

Mass

Cr

Credo

Mass

D

Dramatic element (used for items of liturgical drama that are not otherwise rubricked)

Mass, Office

Gl

Gloria

Mass

Gr

Gradual

Mass

GrV

Gradual verse

Mass

H

Hymn

Office

HV

Hymn verse

Office

I

Invitatory antiphon

Office

Ig

Ingressa (for the Beneventan liturgy)

Office

In

Introit

Mass

InR

Versus ad repetendum for the introit

Mass

InV

Introit verse

Mass

IP

Invitatory psalm (when fully written out and notated)

Office

Ite

Ite missa est

Mass

Ky

Kyrie

Mass

L

Lesson (when fully written out and notated)

Mass

Li

Litany

Office

LiV

Litany verse

Mass, Office

Of

Offertory

Mass

OfV

Offertory verse

Mass

Or

Oratio / Prayer

Mass, Office

Pc

Postcommunion

Mass

Pn

Pater noster

Mass, Office

Pr

Prefatio (when written out and notated)

Mass

PRCS

Preces (Old Hispanic)

Old Hispanic

PRCSV

Verse for the Preces (Old Hispanic)

Old Hispanic

PS

Psalm

Office

Psl

Prosula (a type of trope - Tp)

Mass, Office

R

Responsory

Office

Sa

Sanctus

Mass

Sec

Secret / Oratio secreta

Mass

Sq

Sequence

Mass

SqV

Sequence verse

Mass

Tc

Tract

Mass

TcV

Tract verse

Mass

Tp

Tropus

Mass, Office

V

Responsory verse

Office

Va

Varia

Mass, Office

VaHW

Varia within Holy Week

Mass, Office

W

Versicle

Office

[?]

Unknown, ambiguous, unidentifiable, illegible

Mass, Office

[GV]

Verse for a Mass chant (a generic code used in the earliest Cantus indices)

Mass

[G]

Mass chant (a generic code used in the earliest Cantus indices)

Mass

[MO]

Mass Ordinary (a generic code used in the earliest Cantus indices)

Mass

[M]

"Miscellaneous" (a descriptor used in the earliest versions of Cantus for the Te Deum, Versus in Triduo, prosulae - to be replaced by Va=Varia)

Mass, Office