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Today Christ was born; today the Saviour appeared; today on earth the angels sing, the archangels rejoice;
today the righteous exult, saying: Glory to God in the highest, alleluia.

Source: William Byrd: Gradualia, seu cantionum sacrarum... Liber secundus (1st edition, 1607, 2nd edition, 1610), no.6.
Liturgical function: Magnificat Antiphon, Second Vespers of the Nativity.

All voices, 50: ts }3 , which should imply a tripla diminution in the triple-time bars (dotted semibreve equal to previous minim).
However, the use of rests within this section (the half-bar rests in 52 being indicated by semibreve rests) shows that Byrd requires
the sesquialtera diminution suggested above.
All voices, 54: ts C

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