List of Genres
Displaying 1-63 of 63 genres.
| Abbreviation | Genre |
|---|---|
| A | Antiphon |
| AV | Antiphon verse |
| Ag | Agnus dei |
| Al | Alleluia |
| AlV | Alleluia verse |
| BD | Benedicamus domino |
| Ca | Canticle |
| CaV | Canticle verse |
| Cap | Capitulum |
| Cm | Communion |
| CmR | Versus ad repetendum for the communion |
| CmV | Communion verse |
| Cn | Cantio, Cantiones (paraliturgical sacred songs with poetic and often strophic Latin or vernacular texts) |
| CnV | Cantio Verse (strophe of paraliturgical sacred poetic text) |
| Co | Collect |
| Cr | Credo |
| D | Dramatic element (used for items of liturgical drama that are not otherwise rubricked) |
| Gl | Gloria |
| Gr | Gradual |
| GrV | Gradual verse |
| H | Hymn |
| HV | Hymn verse |
| I | Invitatory antiphon |
| IP | Invitatory psalm (when fully written out and notated) |
| Ig | Ingressa (for the Beneventan liturgy) |
| In | Introit |
| InR | Versus ad repetendum for the introit |
| InV | Introit verse |
| Ite | Ite missa est |
| Ky | Kyrie |
| L | Lesson (when fully written out and notated) |
| Li | Litany |
| LiV | Litany verse |
| Of | Offertory |
| OfV | Offertory verse |
| Or | Oratio / Prayer |
| PRCS | Preces (Old Hispanic) |
| PRCSV | Verse for the Preces (Old Hispanic) |
| PS | Psalm |
| Pc | Postcommunion |
| Pn | Pater noster |
| Pr | Prefatio (when written out and notated) |
| Psa | Prosa |
| Psl | Prosula (a type of trope - Tp) |
| R | Responsory |
| Sa | Sanctus |
| Sec | Secret / Oratio secreta |
| Sq | Sequence |
| SqV | Sequence verse |
| Tc | Tract |
| TcV | Tract verse |
| Tp | Tropus |
| TpBD | Benedicamus domino trope |
| TpIte | Troped Ite missa est |
| V | Responsory verse |
| Va | Varia |
| VaHW | Varia within Holy Week |
| W | Versicle |
| [?] | Unknown, ambiguous, unidentifiable, illegible |
| [GV] | Verse for a Mass chant (a generic code used in the earliest Cantus indices) |
| [G] | Mass chant (a generic code used in the earliest Cantus indices) |
| [MO] | Mass Ordinary (a generic code used in the earliest Cantus indices) |
| [M] | "Miscellaneous" (a descriptor used in the earliest versions of Cantus for the Te Deum, Versus in Triduo, prosulae - to be replaced by Va=Varia) |