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CD 1, Track 46
This example of Gregorian chant is notated in the manuscript as a single melodic line, without accompaniment (monophonic). However, in our recording the performers have added a drone accompaniment. A drone consists of one or more long, sustained tones accompanying a melody. In O successores, two simultaneous sustained notes at the interval of a fifth are played on a fiddle, a medieval bowed string instrument. It may well be that such an accompaniment accords with medieval performance practice.
| 46) | Low register | O successores fortissimi leonis | You successors of the mightiest lion |
| inter templum et altare— | between the temple and the altar— | ||
| dominantes in ministratione eius— | you the masters in his household— | ||
| :40 | Melody rises and falls |
sicut angeli sonant in laudibus, | as the angles sound forth praises |
| et sicut adsunt populis in adiutorio, | and are here to help the nations, | ||
| 1:15 | vos estis inter illos, | you are among those | |
| qui haec faciunt, | who accomplish this, | ||
| sempter curam habentes | forever showing your care | ||
| 1:44 | Climax on officio,
long descent on agni |
in officio agni. | in the service of the lamb. |