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Abbreviations
| Franco-Roman and Beneventan liturgies | |
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| A | Antiphon |
| ABV | Marian Antiphon |
| Ag | Agnus Dei |
| Al | Alleluia |
| AlV | Extra Alleluia Verse |
| AV | Antiphon Verse |
| BD | Benedicamus Domino |
| Be | Benedictus (Mass) |
| Ca | Canticle |
| Cap | Capitulum |
| CaV | Canticle Verse |
| Cm | Communion |
| CmR | Versus ad repetendum for Communion |
| CmV | Communion Verse |
| Col | Collecta |
| Cr | Credo |
| D | Dramatic element (used for items of liturgical drama that are not otherwise rubricked) |
| Dox | Doxology |
| F | Fabordão/ Fabordón (usually psalm-tone setting) |
| Gl | Gloria |
| Gp/Ep | Gospel/Epistle |
| Gr | Gradual |
| GrV | Gradual Verse |
| H | Hymn |
| I | Invitatory Antiphon |
| Ig | Ingressa (Beneventan Liturgy) |
| In | Introit |
| InR | Versus ad repetendum for Introit |
| InV | Introit Verse |
| Ite | Ite Missa est |
| Ky | Kyrie |
| La | Lamentation |
| L | Lesson |
| Li | Litany |
| M | Miscellaneous (Chants, incl. Versus in triduo, prosulae) |
| Mi | Mass |
| Mo | Motet |
| Of | Offertory |
| OfV | Offertory Verse |
| P | Invitatory Psalm (when it is written out in full or in substantial part with musical notation) |
| Pa | Passion (incl. isolated turbae, e.g. 'Non in die festo') |
| Pc | Preces |
| Pn | Pater Noster |
| Ps | Psalm |
| R | Responsory |
| r | Brief Responsory |
| rp | Response |
| Rq | Requiem |
| Sa | Sanctus (Mass) |
| Sq | Sequence |
| Tc | Tract |
| TcV | Tract Verse |
| TD | Te Deum |
| Trp | Trope |
| V | Responsory Verse |
| W | Versicle |
| Old Hispanic rite | |
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| ACC | Ad accedentes |
| ALL | Alleluiatici |
| ALLV | Alleluiatici V |
| BN | Benedictiones |
| CFP | Ad confractionem panis |
| CL | Clamores |
| GRC | Graeci |
| HYMN | Hymni |
| LDM | Laudes in Mass |
| LDMT | Laudes in the matutinum service |
| LDMTV | Verse for the Laudes in the matutinum service |
| MT | Matutinaria |
| PAC | Ad pacem |
| PRCS | Preces / Miserationes |
| PRLG | Praelegenda |
| PSLD | Psallendi |
| PSLM | Psalmi |
| RS | Responsoria |
| SCR | Sacrificia |
| SNCT | Ad sanctus |
| SNO | Soni |
| SNOV | Sono verse |
| TRN | Threni |
| VAR | Varia |
| VPR | Vespertini |
| VRS | Versus |
| Secular vocal and instrumental music | |
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| CC | Canção/ Canción/ Cantiga (Portuguese & Spanish songs) |
| Ch | Chanson (French & Dutch) |
| Chor | Chorus of Jesuit neo-Latin play |
| Instr | Instrumental item (this includes Ricercari; tientos; fantasias; pieces based on sacred or secular polyphonic items) |
| Ma | Madrigal |
| Ro | Romance |
| Te | Terceto |
| Vc | Vilancete/ Villancico |
