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‖ prosa Eccl.|ˈprəʊzə| Pl. prosae. [L.] = prose n. 2. Cf. prosula.
1801T. Busby Dict. Mus., Prosæ, certain hymns used in the Romish church consisting of rhyme without measure. 1907[see prosula]. 1929Exultet Roll (Brit. Mus.) 5 In the South of Italy, at least from the early part of the tenth century till the thirteenth, a custom existed of writing out this prosa..on a separate roll distinct from the other services of the day. 1957N. Frye Anat. Crit. 275 The emergence of the ‘prosa’ out of the sequence in medieval music. 1970P. Evans Early Trope Repertory of St. Martial de Limoges i. 9 Both the prosa and the prosula are basically literary in their conception. The prosa is created by adding a text to the pre-existent melismatic sequentia which follows the Alleluia. |