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Tonus peregrinus

 
Music Encyclopedia: Tonus peregrinus

(Lat. : ‘wandering tone’)

The late medieval name for an ‘irregular’ psalm tone. Its tenor, or recitation tone, changes in pitch after the mediation; its name comes either from this or from its use for the ‘Pilgrim's Psalm’, Psalm cxiii.



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