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Excerpt from The Winchester Troper: From Mss. Of The Xth And Xith Centuries; With Other Documents Illustrating The History Of Tropes in England And France Every new movement brings with it the signs of its own decay, and while on the one hand the jubila were becoming more and more popular owing to the desire for melodies without words, (combined no doubt with a mistaken wish to enrich and embellish the old chant). On the other hand these same jubila were being fitted with words, which were found to be necessary, or at least desirable, owing to the difficulty of remembering the melodies without them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.