Young—Officium Pastorum. 
349 
Dauid Saturn, a inter: Dicite, quidnam uidistis, ©t ad- 
nuntiate Xpicti natiuitatem. Xatum . 1 
Expanding the first 2 of these texts according to the second 
formula explained above, we arrive at the following: 
Cantor: Quern uidistis, Pastures, dicite? Annunciate 
nobis in terris quis apparuit ? 
chorus: Xatum uidimus in choro angelorum Saluatorem 
Dominum. 
cantor: Dicite, quidnam uidistis, et annunciate Xpisti 
natiuitatem, 
chorus : Xatum uidimus in choro angelorum Saluatorem 
Dominum. 
cantor: Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto; sicut 
erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula 
eaeculorum, Amen. 
[chorus: Xatum uidimus in choro angelorum Saluatorem 
Dominum .] 3 
cantor: Quern uidistis, Pa stores, dicite? Annunciate 
nobis in terris quis apparuit ? 
chorus: Xatum uidimus in choro angelorum; Saluatorem 
Dominum. 
The dramatic advance achieved through the new verse is ob¬ 
vious. In addition to the dialogue element previously found 
in this responsory, we now have the following: 
cantor: Dicite, quidnam uidistis, et annunciate Xpisti 
natiuitatem. 
chorus: Xatum uidimus in choro angelorum Saluatorem 
Dominum. 
1 St. Gall, MS. 413, Breviarium Sangallense saec. xi, p. 102. Cf. 
Bodleian, Laud Miscellaneous MS. 284, Liber Responsalis saec. xii, 
fol. 10u 
2 The two verses (versus) in each of the texts from St. Gall MSS. 
388 and 413 seem to be merely alternatives, only one of which was 
actually used in any one rendition of the responsory. To be sure, 
in a primitive form, of which we have no texts, a responsory probably 
included a large number of verses: in fact, a whole psalm. See 
Wagner, p. 136. 
3 It seems probable that, instead of singing this repetition, the 
Chorus took from the Cantor the second part of the Gloria Patri, 
beginning with Sicut erat. See above, p. 346, note 1. 
