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156 National Music of the World. |
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The Pope of Rome was without his hymn till the other day : the guardian saints, Casimir and Adalbert, were centuries before him; the former in particular having been fitted with a tune by Dio-medes, the composer, a naturalised Venetian attached to the court of Sigismund III., of which the regularity and stateliness are remarkable, considering its date, 1607. |
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