prosulan.
/ˈprəʊs(j)ᵿlə/, U.S. /ˈproʊsələ/ Early Music.
A phrase, sentence, or longer text set to the individual notes or note-groups of a pre-existent melisma (melisma n.). The prosula is sometimes classed as a type of trope (cf. trope n. 1b) but is now more often considered as a separate genre.
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1907 A. Orme & E. G. P. Wyatt tr. P. J. Wagner Introd. Gregorian Melodies xiv. 245 A second kind of trope, which also goes back to Tutilo, resembles the Sequences, and is often like them called Prosa, or, when of lesser extent, Prosula.
1958 W. Apel Gregorian Chant iii. 433 Twenty-five of the Offertoires..are further amplified by the addition of a prosula..that is, a new text appended to the end of a verse, usually the last.
1970 P. Evans Early Trope Repertory of St. Martial de Limoges i. 9 Both the prosa and the prosula are basically literary in their conception.
1975 Anglo-Saxon Eng. 4 134 A Kyriale, beginning imperfectly with part of the prosula to the Kyrie eleison entitled Clemens rector.
2003 Notes (Nexis) 1 Sept. 269 Among them are three responsories and two antiphons for Advent and a noteworthy and musically coherent series of four prosulas, which include melodies derived from the neuma triplex.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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