'Viderunt omnes'
Greta-Mary Hair
Table of standard Saeculorum amen differentiae: modes 1-8
Authentic Mode 1
DPL = F, level with the tristropha sung to A-[men]
Plagal Mode 2
DPL = D, level with the final pitch on the facsimile
Authentic Mode 3
DPL = G, level with last pitch
Plagal Mode 4
DPL = F, level with the 2nd last pitch
Authentic Mode 5
DPL = A, level with the 3rd above final pitch
Plagal Mode 6
DPL = F, level with the final pitch
Authentic Mode 7
DPL = B, level with a 3rd above the final pitch
Plagal Mode 8
DPL = G, level with the final pitch
NB. In authentic modes the pitch-at-line is a 3rd above the final. In plagal modes it is the final (mode 4 excepted, where it is F, not E).
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