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Canticles

A song, especially a hymn (as in "Canticle of Canticles", another way to refer to the biblical book Song Of Solomon .)

A Canto or division of a Poem

Examples of Biblical canticles:

''Benedicite'' or '' Song Of The Three Holy Children '' ( Daniel III, 57–88 in the Apocrypha )

''Benedictus'' or '' Canticle Of Zechariah '' ( Luke I, 68–79)

'' Magnificat '' or ''Song of the Blessed Virgin Mary'' ( Luke I 46-55)

'' Nunc Dimittis ''

From the Latin "canticulum", a diminutive of "canticum", song.

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Hymns and Cancticles from the Hebrew Scriptures

Hymns and Canticles from the Prophet Isaiah Part 1

Hymns and Canticles from the Prophet Isaiah Part 2