In preparation for Easter, the Choirmaster at my parish sent me the text of a 12th century trope in the hopes that I could translate it for him. Like usual, I accepted before I had adequately accessed the amount of work this would be! What looked like a normal straight up translation has turned into a nightmare hodge-podge of misspelled Latin words, hybrid Greek/Latin and French/Latin words (at least I think that is what it was...), adjectives and adverbs galore and just a mess of poor grammar and syntax! Now I am not an expert, and I am sure that is part of the frustration...but whoever wrote this should have been shot!Give me Julius Caesar please!
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