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(2). cantor: Quern vidistis, P&stores, dicite? Auuuntiate 
nobis in terris quisi apparuit? 
chorus: Natum vidimus in choro angelorum Salvatorem 
Dominum. 
cantor : Flatus est nobis liodie Salvator, qui est Cbristus 
Dominus in civitate David. 
chorus : Fatum vidimus in choro angelorum Salvatorem 
Dominum. 
cantor: Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto; sicut 
erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in 
saecula saeculorum, Amen. 
chorus: Fatum vidimus in choro angelorum Salvatorem 
Dominum. 1 
cantor: Quern vidistis 1 , Pastores, dicite? Auuuntiate 
nobis in terris quis apparuit? 
chorus: Fatum vidimus in choro angelorum Salvatorem 
Dominum. 
According to this formula, the soloist begins by singing only 
the first half of the response, to which the chorus respond by 
singing the latter half. The soloist then sings the verse, to 
which the chorus respond with the latter half of the response. 2 
The rendition is concluded by the singing once more of the 
response, the first half by the soloist, the latter half by the 
chorus. 
In this form of rendition, then, the dramfatic value of the 
response is fully brought out, for the formula begins and ends 
with the dialogue: 
cantor: Quern vidistis, Pastores, dicite? Annuntiate 
nobis in terris quis apparuit ? 
1 No doubt this repetendum was often omitted. Instead of repeat¬ 
ing the second part of the response at this point, the Chorus often 
took from the Cantor the latter part of the Gloria Patri, beginning 
with Sicut erat. See the texts from Oxford, Bibl. Bodl., MSS. Misc. 
Liturg. 346 and 202 printed above pp. 315-317. With this change, form¬ 
ula (2) seems applicable to the third responsory (Quern vidistis) in 
Christmas Matins from Bibl. Nat., MS. lat. 1273, fol. 35 v -38, t printed 
below in Appendix B. 
2 This repetendum by the chorus must often have been omitted. 
