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incipit

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in·ci·pit  (ns-pt, ngk-)
n.
The beginning or opening words of the text of a medieval manuscript or early printed book.
[From Latin, third person sing. present tense of incipere, to begin; see inception.]
incipit Latin [ˈɪnkɪpɪt]
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) here begins: used as an introductory word at the beginning of some medieval manuscripts


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Fingerings, dynamics, tempo indications, ornaments explicated in small incipits above the staff, and general instructions assist the performer in developing authentic baroque keyboard performance practice.
The Baroque Piano: The Influence of Society, Style, and Musical ... by Holmes, Ruth Jane / American Music Teacher
[11] Donatus antiquissimus in Greco, et cum eo quoddam opusculum metricum, quod dicebatur esse Virgilii de bello nautico Augusti cum Antonio et Cleopatra, quod incipit 'armatum cane musa ducem belloque cruentam Egyptum,' etc.
Creating canons in fifteenth-century Ferrara: Angelo Decembrio's De ... by Celenza, Christopher S. / Renaissance Quarterly
In the Order of Mass, where the Latin rubric reads, 'Tunc sacerdos incipit Precem eucharisticum,' the translators have altered it to read instead, 'The priest leads the assembly in the eucharistic prayer.
Liturgical rejects: Vatican dismisses translations and translators by Zuhlsdorf, John T. / Catholic Insight
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