On the other hand, the In nomine was still alive in Facy's day, and Lugge was composing his cantus firmus settings, so the genre was not quite dead. |
The cantus Evangelii and Epistolarum admitted likewise of a great and wearisome licence of inflection. |
This cadence articulates the structure of the cantus firmus more clearly than the first, marking precisely the end of the second line of the hymn. |
In the final movement of that symphony, the medieval Russian liturgical chant 'Requiescat in pace' is employed as a cantus firmus. |
To cantus firmus a write two counterpoints above and two below in the first species. |
The use of a plainchant cantus firmus, or dominating tenor theme, knit together the movements even though they were separated during the liturgy. |