Proustian footnote (on psalmody)

A further prosodic wrinkle  is that the doxology is often performed while drawing out the final three or four syllables of each line:

Praise God, from Whom all blesss - sings - flooowww;

Praise Him, all creatures   heere -  beee - looowwww;

Praise Him above, ye Heaven - lyy -  Hooost;

Praise Father, Son, and  Ho - lyy - Ghooost.

Compare this Proustian observation:

Le marchand d’habits psalmodiait: « Habits, marchand d’habits,  ha… bits »,  avec la même pause entre les deux dernières syllabes d’habits  que s’il eût entonné en plain-chant: « Per omnia saecula saeculo… rum » …

-- Marcel Proust, La Prisonnière (1919; p. 118 of the Pléiade edition)

[The above is an afterpiece to the following essay:

https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2014/01/orthoepy-of-doxology.html  ]