"My vessel has only slight damage on forecastle and bulb," I intone.
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" If the same scene took place today, he would solemnly intone: "Hypersonics.
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The past has made us who we are today, the Chainsmokers intone wordlessly.
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"Do you see me?" his classmates intone, one after the next after the next.
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"She was not thrown off by the material at all," Gershtein and Shrier intone in unison.
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They needed gravel in their voice and the ability to intone rage, grief, and feral intelligence.
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These basic facts can slide into cliche: Appalachia is a land of contrasts, the finger-waggers intone.
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" He went on to intone like a network anchor: "Donald Trump has won the state of Florida.
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Between songs, we hear Malcolm X intone that no one has had it rougher than they have.
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The jury may very well get to hear Michael Douglas lovingly intone that greed is right and good.
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Politicians and pundits often intone that there are "a multitude" of new energy options, but that's rhetorical hyperbole.
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And yet other characters earnestly intone several times that he wants to make the world a better place.
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THE relationship between China and America, as diplomats often intone, is more important than any other between two countries.
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We live in a dangerous world, government officials and political candidates routinely intone to justify budget-busting military expenditures.
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The singers intone the note names from the solfège system, creating a perfectly closed system of medium and message.
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Does she simply intone "murder" in the whispered voice of the basilisk from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets?
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But they "glower and intone dialogue like 'I assured the elders we'd have the apple for London,'" Mr. Kenny added.
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My grandfather's early-eighties Chrysler, borrowing the voice from Speak & Spell, would intone, "A door is ajar," whenever you got in.
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In short, when betting on disruption, one has to identify how this disruption will occur — not just intone the magic word.
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"The poster needed to be cool, and to intone "knowing,"" Avram Finkelstein, a co-creator of the campaign, wrote in 2013.
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Mr. Sher opts for the obvious: The choristers sit and stand with faces forward, stern and motionless, as they intone the music.
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As crowds intone "The King in the North!" for Jon (prompting traumatic Robb flashbacks for many of us), his success depends on Sansa.
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To all you youngsters out there, these guys intone to an imagined audience of high-school phenoms, this is why you stay in school.
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People who say this usually like to cite big numbers — "Our debt is 19 trillion dollars," they intone in their best Dr. Evil voice.
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" But at the beginning of each episode, Jack Webb, who played Sergeant Friday in the series, would intone: "This is the city: Los Angeles, California.
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"Kara, Kara, Kaaaaaaara," she'll intone with a dulcet lilt, which draws you in and makes you quiet until the moment she goes in for the kill.
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My mother would intone the appropriate incantations to drive out the evil spirits, and sprinkle our family, our home, and its surroundings with her lustral libations.
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The Elements intone chantlike harmonies, and in the most inspired moments, the male quartet performs complex, pungent passages, with crisscrossing strands of dense yet lucid counterpoint.
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For a country that loves to intone that "all men are created equal," Pre-Check and other forms of government-sanctioned paid priority should be an anathema.
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The result is eerie and isolates the script—in one scene, Finley uses the lilting meter of a Woodie Guthrie song to intone Phelan and Trump simultaneously.
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" The vocalists Patrice Quinn and Dwight Trible intone: "Our time as victims is over/We will no longer ask for justice/Instead we will take our retribution.
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Although modern-day commentators often like to solemnly intone that "no person is above the law," every citizen deep down is skeptical that this ideal is always realized.
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Perhaps both, as they drift through this chilly, unsettling space while disembodied voices intone enigmatic affirmations ("The way out is really the way in") and directions for personal transformation.
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A male voice will intone, "Over speed." when you exceed a set limit (for example, 224.95 mph over the posted limit) or "K band" should it detect a speed trap.
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There are instances of something like choral speaking, too, in which members of an ensemble of voices intone a text on different pitches, forming distinct — if still talk-like — harmonies.
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"We absolutely believe in the maximum amount of information available to people around the world," Walker said on that topic, after being allowed to intone on Google's goodness for almost half an hour.
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The actors intone their pseudo-scientific dialogue slowly, gazing into the distance, with long pauses and minimal expression, as if they were students putting on an experimental production of a Samuel Beckett play.
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As the orchestra roils, with restless spiraling figures, bursts of percussion and slashing brass, the characters asking the emperor for action intone their lines in stentorian, almost monotone declamations, enforced by a large chorus.
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The event's program said Magid would recite the "Muslim call to prayer," leading many to believe he would intone the adhan, the melodic call to worship that issues forth from many mosques five times a day.
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Though they usually prefer solo arias, the Russian and American leaders immediately intone a duet that takes the audience through issues ranging from Syria to trade to the EU, but not Salisbury, Ukraine or election meddling.
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There are still those who protest rebooting active stacks from dead bodies; they intone the ideology of "spirits, not sleeves" with the belief that re-sleeving is against nature and binds the soul irrevocably to life.
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Those with a more cynical view intone that the government in Ann Arbor was not terribly interested in the plight of the largely poor residents of long-beleaguered Flint, a casualty of the Rust Belt Collapse.
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Presidents, senators, congressmen and judges are all expected to play to type, to intone the obligatory phrases and clichés, to nod their heads at the appropriate occasions, and, above all, to not disrupt the established order.
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Recently his career as a politician has been defined by defending Mrs May's messy compromise against hardliners who think that all you need to do is intone the magic phrase "Leave means Leave" and practical problems will evaporate.
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Maybe the Seven Kingdoms need to struggle along in monarchy for a while longer, and if they do, well, why not have an all-seeing demigod on the throne to flatly intone about tax policies and land usage?
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The mantra that judicial nominees are expected to recite — "I just apply the facts to the law and, presto, come up with the answer" — is understood both by those who intone it and those who hear it to be hogwash.
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Sampled voices intone, "Dance while the record spins" and announce "the future"; meanwhile, beats repeat and melt down, dissonances blip and collide in the high frequencies, and eventually the whole track implodes and collapses like an extended binge gone very wrong.
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They may endure the verbal lashings of a couple of shareholders, perhaps face a slightly embarrassing "say on pay" vote about their princely income and then intone that after careful analysis, a compensation committee, advised by experts, unanimously approved their ridiculous pay package.
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A marvelous example of inverted imagery in Bach's church cantatas is the fourth movement of "Whoever lets only the dear God rule" (BWV 93), where a soprano-alto duet gives voice to a hymn text by means of instrument-like countermelodies, while the violins and viola nonverbally intone the actual hymn tune.
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You can bet your ass that Statler and Waldorf will be spending all day on this tomorrow on First Take, every anchor appearing on SportsCenter in the next 72 hours will deftly switch to their serious voice and intone "in an interview with Adam Schefter...," and people will watch it because they think it's news.
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The mayor of Mytilene, Spyros Galinos, would probably say that he was doing his best in terrible circumstances: it was at his behest that an unusual act of prayer for the dead was held in the port last year, with Orthodox clergy, and then Muslims led by Mr Dawa, taking turns to intone their supplications for the departed.
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But the world is apparently full of people waiting to draw themselves up and intone some version of "why, when I was a child…" It is indeed part of my professional responsibility as a pediatrician — one on one, in the privacy of the exam room — to let parents know when they're doing something that is inadvisable or downright dangerous.
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There's a field of glowing tulips that flash to the rhythm of tiny bells; there's a laser show across a lake that you can control from the viewing bridge; there's a canopy of infinite electronic fireflies that engulf you out of nowhere; a grove of oaks that intone in a secret language calling to you from afar; and a lawn of pressure sensitive pods that only come to life when you dance on them like a cross between a lotus pond and the "Billie Jean" video.
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Magicians practicing Thelemic magick will often intone the name Aiwass at the heart while performing the Qabalistic cross, as reinforcing their commitment to the presiding intelligence of Liber AL.
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Then follow the dirges of all the Patriarchs, which they intone when Moses for the second time has communicated to them the sad tidings. Finally, Moses himself chants a lament, addressed partly to the sun and partly to the enemy.
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He had numerous ceremonial duties. At the death of the king he would lead the funeral procession and, at the king's tomb, he would break his baton, throw it into the tomb and intone "Gentlemen, the King is dead; you are free from his service"; he would then take a new baton and intone "Gentlemen, the King lives, and gives you your posts." In the Early Modern period, most of the real work of the Grand maître was accomplished by his secretaries, and not by himself personally. His role was thus generally symbolic, although he often took personal charge of his ceremonial duties.
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Marigold swoons in fear, and Bradford seizes her, carrying her in his arms into the fire. In horror, the Puritans kneel in prayer, and the opera closes as they intone the Lord's Prayer.Adapted from the synopsis given by Keith Anderson in the Naxos recording.
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The music reaches a great climax (molto fortissimo); the tempo reverts to the opening Lento, and the brass intone the Lasciate ogni speranza theme from the slow introduction, accompanied by the drum-roll motif. Once again Liszt inscribes the score with the corresponding words of the Inferno.
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She asks Marcel to bless her. Marcel does so and declares the couple married in the sight of God (Trio: "Savez-vous qu’en joignant vos mains"). Meanwhile, the Protestants who barricaded themselves in the church intone Luther's hymn "Ein feste Burg". Suddenly, the singing inside the church is interrupted.
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The hells of the Americas include the Aztec religion's Mictlan, Inuit religion's Adlivun, and the Yanomami religion's Shobari Waka. In Mayan religion, Xibalba (or Metnal) is the dangerous underworld of nine levels. The road into and out of it is said to be steep, thorny and very forbidding. Ritual healers would intone healing prayers banishing diseases to Xibalba.
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Religious services were conducted initially only on the third Sunday of each month. With the development of the city and the increased number of the faithful, the old church soon became too small. Intone carried out the construction of a new neo-Romanesque church, designed by architect Luis Melvil. It was completed and consecrated in 1911 in honor of St. Joseph.
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Charities and religious leaders condemn Blair , The Independent 26 July 2006. Guardian sketch writer Simon Hoggart frequently lavished praise on Sir Peter, describing him as "the grandest of grandees" (July 2008)Simon Hoggart "Tripped by an obvious trap", The Guardian, 3 July 2008. that when in the Chamber, Tapsell rises "to speak, or rather to intone superbly" (January 2008)Simon Hoggart "A collective sigh of relief", The Guardian, 25 January 2008.
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None of the singers were up to the task and they all reacted against it. Mozart wrote to his father in the depths of despair, blaming the worst reaction on dal Prato. He said dal Prato's voice would not be so bad if it came out from somewhere other than his mouth. He was completely unable to intone the quartet, Mozart said, had no method, and "sang like a young boy auditioning for a part in the chapel choir".
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They would fill it with sea water, bind it with > ropes, and stick a long board through the ropes. From eight to twelve > Ethiopians, usually the strongest of the lot, would lift the keg, on top of > which the new canto captain would ride, holding the branch of a bush in one > hand and in the other a bottle of white rum. The entire canto would parade > toward the Pedreiras neighborhood. Porters would intone a monotonous air, in > an African dialect or patois.
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From the late 1950s, the Schwinn Bicycle Company made use of children's television programming to expand its dominance of the child and youth bicycle markets. The company was an early sponsor (from 1958) of Captain Kangaroo. The Captain himself was enlisted to sell Schwinn-brand bicycles to the show's audience, typically six years old and under. At the end of each live Schwinn marketing promotion, Bob Keeshan would intone, "Schwinn bikes—the quality bikes—are best!" and "Prices slightly higher in the South and in the West".
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However, the less fortunate liturgists, those whose social status was closest to the average citizen, were quick to denounce the lack of civic-mindedness of the rich, who tended to be more supportive of the reactionary Oligarchy than of democracy. Theophrastus has one of his "Characters" intone: "When will they stop trying to ruin us with liturgies and the trierarchy?"Theophrastus, Characters, XXXVI, 6 Faced with the increasingly heavy financial requirements of the city, the wealthy were obliged to "choose between conserving their own wealth and conformity to elite values".Ouhlen, p. 336.
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Nonetheless, they always finds eager volunteers. The convent is accessible only from the basilica, which under Ottoman rule was in charge of Muslim guards. The keys which lock the basilica shut the friars off from the outer world leaving their only means of communication as aperture in the main portal, through which they receive provisions from Saint Saviour's. Every afternoon the fathers conduct a pilgrimage to the sanctuaries of the basilica, and at midnight, while chanting their Office, they go in procession to the tomb of the Saviour, where they intone the Benedictus.
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These chants are primarily syllabic. For example, the Collect for Easter consists of 127 syllables sung to 131 pitches, with 108 of these pitches being the reciting note A and the other 23 pitches flexing down to G.Hoppin, Anthology of Medieval Music p. 11. Liturgical recitatives are commonly found in the accentus chants of the liturgy, such as the intonations of the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel during the Mass, and in the direct psalmody of the Office. Psalmodic chants, which intone psalms, include both recitatives and free melodies.
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For whatever reason, MIT audiences would spontaneously read the announcements aloud, in unison. This eventually became such an ingrained habit that, even though LSC discontinued screening the "stereo" announcements, the audience would intone the (now unseen) words. Even though LSC has replaced the sound system several times since the appearance of stereo sound, and now operates a Dolby/Bose multi-channel theatrical sound system, the tradition has continued unchanged for decades. A second tradition is less obscure; if there is an annoying technical problem with the screening (e.g.
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Almost all Qawwalis are based on a Raga from the Hindustani classical music tradition. Songs are usually arranged as follows: # They start with an instrumental prelude where the main melody is played on the harmonium, accompanied by the tabla, and which may include improvised variations of the melody. # Then comes the alap, a long tonal improvised melody during which the singers intone different long notes, in the raga of the song to be played. # The lead singer begins to sing some preamble verses which are typically not part of the main song, although thematically related to it.
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An announcer, usually Allan McFee, would intone "The National, with ", followed by a cut to a shot of the anchor beside a screen. The anchor of the program would then summarize the top stories as different slides appeared for each of them on the screen. An internal study was conducted in July 1979 on whether to move The National to the 10 p.m. slot. This study group was composed of Bill Morgan, Mark Starowicz, and Vince Carlin. On January 11, 1982, the CBC relaunched The National with a radically different format and presentation style that looked very hi-tech for its time.
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Conductor Frederick Fennell describes the D theme as: > some of the most wide-open, free-swinging band music I know. Sousa's use of > the trombones to intone the first three notes only and then other fragments > of the melody while the rest of the tune keepers carry on with the melody > makes all the difference. The use of trombones to emphasize selected elements of melody, as mentioned by Fennell, is characteristic of Sousa's scoring throughout his career. But in certain other respects, the instrumentation of High School Cadets displays its place in the evolution of the composer's ideas about scoring.
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He actively campaigned for Madero in the 1910 presidential elections, but when Madero was arrested and fraudulent elections held, Serdán left for the United States. After the Electoral College declared Díaz and Ramón Corral victors in the 1910 elections, Serdán is reported to have said, "Do not intone the hosanna of Victory, Señores Porfiristas and Corralistas, for we Anti-Reelectionists have not yet fired the last cartridge."quoted in Stanley R. Ross, Francisco I. Madero p. 111. When Madero escaped jail in 1910 and issued the Plan of San Luis Potosí, which called for rebellion throughout Mexico on November 20, 1910, Serdán returned to Puebla to organize revolution there.
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Pulteney's politics first became apparent at the contest for the Cambridge University constituency during the 1780 general election. He cast his votes in that election for the two victorious candidates in the University constituency, Northite-aligned James Mansfield and Rockinghamite-aligned Lord John Townshend, and against Pitt the Younger.Namier, Crossroads, p.10, Hamish Hamilton, 1970 This created a near breach with his friend Rutland, leading Pulteney to intone in a December 1782 letter reproduced by Namier that: "I was then honored with by your Grace have done me injury in your opinion; but except in the Cambridge election where I was pre-engaged, I have never acted contrary to your wishes".
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In 1951, Ashford took a leave of absence from his Santa Ana, California post office job, where he moonlighted as a Santa Ana municipal league softball and National Night Ball League of Southern California umpire. His colorful style included a personal trademark: when a batter received a base-on-balls, instead of simply calling "Ball Four," Ashford would grandly intone, "Ball Fo-uh, you may proceed to first base." He left Santa Ana to umpire in the Southwestern International League, becoming the first black umpire in the traditionally white professional baseball system. When he was offered a full-season umpiring job, Ashford resigned from the postal service.
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Linguist Ben Zimmer compared it to similar slogans such as "Hands up, don't shoot," which originated in the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown, and the older "No justice, no peace." Zimmer called it "a peculiarly powerful rallying cry," and noted, "to intone the words 'I can't breathe,' surrounded by thousands of others doing the same, is an act of intense empathy and solidarity. The empathy comes from momentarily stepping into the persona of Eric Garner at that instant the life was being choked out of him." Zimmer noted that, in the variant "We can't breathe," the phrase becomes directed towards social change and more metaphorical.
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The third archangel, Raphael, does not appear with the others in the semidome but in the lower section. At the bottom is the announcement, the biblical prophecy, represented by means of combined images of the visions of Isaiah and Ezequiel. In keeping with the first, two magnificent seraphim with three pairs of wings each purify the mouth of the prophets with glowing embers which they are holding with tongs. Next to them are the prophets, represented with their hands together in an attitude of reverence. At the same time, the seraphim intone the Trisagion, or song of praise to the Lord, represented by the letters SCS, SCS, SCS, which mean ‘holy, holy, holy’.
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Caricatures of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin by Sam Berman Each episode followed a somewhat similar format, often including recurring sketches. The show started after the intro and a batch of shorts skits that served as cold open with a short dialogue between Rowan and Martin. Shortly afterward, Rowan would intone: "C'mon Dick, let's go to the party". This live to tape segment comprised all cast members and occasional surprise celebrities dancing before a 1960s "mod" party backdrop, delivering one- and two-line jokes interspersed with a few bars of dance music (later adopted on The Muppet Show, which had a recurring segment that was similar to "The Cocktail Party" with absurd moments from characters).
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Returning to Oxford, he became a university lecturer in Germanic philology and mediaeval German literature, attached first to Mansfield College and then to the newly founded Wolfson College. One of his Oxford pupils was John le Carré and McLintock "liked to think that George Smiley's affectionate references to German studies owed something to his tutorials". In A Perfect Spy, le Carré describes his protagonist Pym's dedication to McLintock's disciplines: > By the end of his first term he was an enthusiastic student of Middle and > Old High German. By the end of his second he could recite the > Hildebrandslied and intone Bishop Ulfila's Gothic translation of the Bible > in his college bar to the delight of his modest court.
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Wadhams, Nathan, and Lindsay describe the style of the Shirelles early work as "tight, almost doo-wop harmony". Owens' vocals, described by rock n' roll writer Alwyn W. Turner as being "wonderfully expressive", were capable of sounding "almost, but not quite" out of tune, which in his opinion led to Owens' sounding innocent in her songs; music critic Albin Zak describes her vocals as being able to intone desire and vulnerability. The other members, singing backup, also convey what Michael Campbell, a professor of music at Western Illinois University, calls a "naive schoolgirl sound". The lyrics sung by the Shirelles tended to be fairly simple and "barely" concealed the subtexts of the songs.
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" Andy Seiler praised James Caan's performance in his review for USA Today, "To hear Caan menacingly intone 'I can promise you a day of reckoning you will not live long enough to never forget' is to remember why this man is a star." In his review for the Village Voice, J. Hoberman wrote, "Phillippe talks like Brando; Del Toro apes the body language. Nevertheless, James Caan steals the movie as a veteran tough guy, rotating his torso around some unseen truss." Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "B" rating and Owen Gleiberman wrote, "The Way of the Gun plays like an unusually ritzy festival circuit audition film, though McQuarrie, it must be said, aces the audition.
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Linda Mack called The Unanswered Question "a study in contrasts. Strings intone slow diatonic, triadic chords; a solo trumpet asks the question seven times; the flutes try to answer the question, each time getting more and more agitated and atonal." Leonard Bernstein added in his 1973 Norton Lectures which borrowed its title from the Ives work that the woodwinds are said to represent our human answers growing increasingly impatient and desperate, until they lose their meaning entirely. Meanwhile, right from the very beginning, the strings have been playing their own separate music, infinitely soft and slow and sustained, never changing, never growing louder or faster, never being affected in any way by that strange question-and-answer dialogue of the trumpet and the woodwinds.
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In the earliest days, wearing a tuxedo to intone the formal sign-on when WNBT went on the air each evening, Forrest announced every station break and every program. He covered wrestling, boxing, hockey, horse racing and movie premieres. He interviewed men and women on the street, introduced dramatic productions, was a quiz show announcer and variety show host and even became the network's first full-time news presenter after Lowell Thomas, whose radio news had been simulcast on television, decided to do his broadcasts from his upstate home. In those pre-World War II days, he became the most visible presence on television, when there were fewer than 5,000 television sets in America, mostly concentrated in the New York City vicinity.
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Julie Seitter (née Julie Stinneford) is a professional voice talent who can be heard as "Julie", the interactive voice response agent for Amtrak's automated information and reservation telephone system. Julie's positive voice personality—described as "spunky", "tirelessly chipper", "perky", "unshakably courteous", and "reassuring"—has been cited as one of the reasons for the success of the Amtrak system. Upon the automated system's confirmation of a caller's spoken instruction, Seitter's recorded voice would cheerily intone, "Great!" or "Got it!", while a speech recognition failure might prompt the message, "I'm sorry, I'm having trouble understanding you..." On Valentine's Day in 2002, Seitter's voice was featured, in character, in a humorous National Public Radio story, and Seitter's Amtrak persona was parodied in a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch in 2005–2006, with Rachel Dratch as "Julie".
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From 2011 through 2013 La Casa Ida carried out Pantalla Urbana (Urban screen) pop-up Video mapping periodic exhibitions on emblematic buildings. During its active years La Casa Ida established links and collaborations with worldwide organizations, researchers, activists and artists such as: Alta Tecnología Andina ATA, Aloardi Record Label, MALI Art Museum of Lima, Canada Council for the Arts, Contemporary Art Museum of Lima MAC, Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Discos Invisibles Record Label, Escuelab, Etopia Centro de Arte y Tecnología, Iberescena, Ibermusicas, Iberotec, International Festival of Video and Electronic Art in Lima, ISONAR Sound Research Group from Universidad San Martín de Porres, Art critic Jorge Villacorta, Ministry of Culture in Peru, Municipal Theater of Lima, National School of Fine Arts ENSABAP, Organization of Ibero-American States, OTELO - Offenes Technologielabor, Pro Helvetia, Scant Intone Record Label, Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation AECID, V2 Institute for Unstable Media among others.
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Peterson VirtualStrobe application on iPod Touch In 2009 Peterson Tuners released a VirtualStrobe tuner as an end-user application add-on for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch where the application is bought cheaply as a download and installed. There exists a special -inch TRS jack adapter for connecting an electric instrument to the iPhone, a notable achievement in strobe tuner technology, which has made such tuning widely available. In order to use it, however, a compatible iPod or iPhone must already be on hand. As both mechanical and electronic strobes are still more expensive and arguably more difficult to use in order to achieve the desired results than ordinary tuners, their use is usually limited to those whose business it is accurately to intone and tune pianos, harps, and early instruments (such as harpsichords) on a regular basis: luthiers, instrument restorers and technicians – and instrument enthusiasts.
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However, for many decades following, most orchestral trumpet writing consisted of basic harmonic support (what many trumpeters derisively refer to as "thumps and bumps") and fanfare-like passages, with very little in the way of melody. There were a few notable exceptions, such as Mozart's Symphony No. 39 in E major, where the trumpets intone the main theme of the opening movement; Haydn's Symphony No. 103 in E-flat major ("Drum Roll"), where the trumpets often outline the melody in all four movements; or Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in which the trumpets double the melody of the famous "Ode to Joy" in the finale of the work. After the brief attempt at developing a keyed trumpet, the instrument for which Joseph Haydn and Johann Nepomuk Hummel wrote their famous concerti, the development of the more versatile valve trumpet (c. 1815) spelled the eventual demise of the natural trumpet in Western music, until its resurrection in the 20th century.
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219, § > 454). > But among those, the diapason is the most perfect and it pleases more the > ears than the others, hence, the diapason system is favored and the only one > used by European and Ottoman musicians, so that they tune their instruments > only according to this system. Until the generation of traditional protopsaltes who died during the 1980s, there were still traditional singers who intoned the Octoechos according to the trochos system (columns 3-6), but they did not intone the ' according to Pythagorean tuning, as Chrysanthos imagined it as a practice of the Ancient Greeks and identified it as a common European practice (first column in comparison with Western solfeggio in the second column). In the last column of his table, he listed the new modal signatures or matyriai of the phthongoi (μαρτυρίαι "witnesses"), as he introduced them for the use of his reform notation as a kind of pitch class system.
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With a view to checking the abuses committed in the celebration of the Feast of Fools on New Year's Day at Notre-Dame de Paris in the twelfth century, the celebration was not entirely banned, but the part of the "Lord of Misrule" or "Precentor Stultorum" was restrained, so that he was to be allowed to intone the prose "Laetemur gaudiis", and to wield the precentor's staff, but this before the first Vespers of the feast, not during it. During the second Vespers, it had been the custom that the precentor of the fools should be deprived of his staff when the verse in the Magnificat, Deposuit potentes de sede ("He has put down the mighty from their seat") was sung. Hence the feast was often known as the "Festum 'Deposuit'". Eudes de Sully allowed the staff to be taken at that point from the mock precentor, but laid down that the verse "Deposuit" not be repeated more than five times.
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