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Text:On this high feast day honour we the Baptist
Author:Paul the Deacon, 730-799
Tune:DIVA SERVATRIX
Harmonizer:Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958

777. On this high feast day honour we the Baptist

Text Information
First Line: On this high feast day honour we the Baptist
Latin Title: Ut queant laxis
Author: Paul the Deacon, 730-799
Meter: 11.11.11.5
Language: English
Publication Date: 2010
Topic: Saints' and Other Holy Days: St. John the Baptist
Source: Translation and paraphrase: Editors of The New English Hymnal, 1985
Copyright: © Canterbury Press, Norwich
Tune Information
Name: DIVA SERVATRIX
Harmonizer: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958
Meter: 11.11.11.5
Key: G Major
Source: Antiphoner, Bayeux, 1739



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