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Pimont, the author of a classic work on the Breviary Hymns, in a number of comments, notes the crudities of the Breviary hymns, even in their revised forms. Thus, in the hymn for Prime, he notes apparent ruggedness. He passes similar comments on the hymns assigned to the little hours.
Rabanus Maurus testifies that hymns were in general usage in the second part of the ninth century. This is the opinion of Gueranger, Pimont, Blume and Baumer.
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