id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005459385 Pierik, Marie, 1884-1966. When the people sang 1949 .txt text/plain 9418 445 70 Pope Pius X was especially qualified for drawing up laws pertaining to liturgical music because of his natural talents and experience in the field of Church music. By the ninth and tenth centuries the Introit was reduced to its present form, as given in the eleventh century Roman Ordo: antiphon, psalm verse, Gloria Patri (with sicut erat) and a closing repetition of the antiphon, A-B'C'A. The first verse is marked Ps., a souvenir of its origin as an entire psalm. cache/_005459385.txt txt/_005459385.txt