in nomine


in nomine

(ɪn ˈnɒmɪˌneɪ; -ˌniː) n (Classical Music) music any of several pieces of music of the 16th or 17th centuries for keyboard or for a consort of viols, based on a cantus firmus derived from the Vespers antiphon Gloria tibi Trinitas[from Latin in nomine Jesu in the name of Jesus, the first words of an introit for which this type of music was originally composed]