The Troubled Tyrant Hears with Dread (Audit tyrannus)

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The troubled tyrant hears with dread

Author: Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
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	Three English Hymn Tunes for Organ

Author: Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

Marcus Aurelius Clemens Prudentius, "The Christian Pindar" was born in northern Spain, a magistrate whose religious convictions came late in life. His subsequent sacred poems were literary and personal, not, like those of St. Ambrose, designed for singing. Selections from them soon entered the Mozarabic rite, however, and have since remained exquisite treasures of the Western churches. His Cathemerinon liber, Peristephanon, and Psychomachia were among the most widely read books of the Middle Ages. A concordance to his works was published by the Medieval Academy of America in 1932. There is a considerable literature on his works. --The Hymnal 1940 Companion… Go to person page >

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First Line:	The troubled tyrant hears with dread
Title:	The Troubled Tyrant Hears with Dread (Audit tyrannus)
Latin Title:	Audit tyrannus anxius)
Author:	Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
Language:	English
Copyright:	Tr. © 2023 ICEL

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[The troubled tyrant hears with dread]

DEUS TUORUM MILITUM (Grenoble)

DEUS TUORUM MILITUM (sometimes called GRENOBLE) was published in France in the 1753 Grenoble Antiphoner as a setting for the text "Deus tuorum militum" (“The God of Your Soldiers”). One of the finest French diocesan tunes from the eighteenth century, it represents a departure in Roman Catholic h…

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