In Anglican Sung Morning Prayer / Mattins sung to gregorian chant, is the intonation of the tone sung before the reciting note in the Venite, the Te Deum and the Benedictus or only in the latter? I see in the 1902 Briggs and Frere Manual of Plainsong that the intonation is sung for every verse in the Benedictus, but only in the first verse of the Te Deum and the Venite. Why is that? Does this apply to the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis at Evensong too?
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