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[English Translation] blessing to the people. Afterwards, each one retires to his room to study again, until nine o'clock, which having sounded, the Bishop returns to the Church, in the same order, singing Psalms and Canticles with all the Musicians, where having arrived, he preaches for the space of an hour. When it is Sunday and a solemn feast, the bells begin to ring out Psalms in the morning, with such beautiful harmony: The Clergy and the people begin the first verse, and one of the Musicians' sides that we have mentioned, intones the second verse, then the Clergy and the people the third: the other side of the Musicians the fourth, then again the Clergy and the people, then at the sixth the organs, with some voices and cornets, and so consecutively we go following all the verses of the Psalm, until the last couplet, which they all intone together with a melody and unmistakable chord. When this is finished, the Bishop makes a brief thanksgiving, sometimes summarizing the principal points of his preaching, which having been done, the blessing is given to all the people, and he returns to his lodgings with all the Clergy, singing some Psalms |
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