In message <001c01be1961$0776c960$46c44e0c@computername>,
Matthew Westphal <[log in to unmask]> writes
>**It doesn't mean that the sound is that of the fourteenth
>century,** but it's something different from the standard tradition that
>we're used to hearing nowadays.
I'm also pleased to see this phrase in particular. I suppose what I had in
mind when talking about Peres' chant recordings is something that
David Hiley (_Western Plainchant_, p. 385) said when talking about the
notation of chant rhythm: "...our experience of the rhythmic
characteristics of music outside the tradition of Western art-music has
opened our ears to the possibility of much more flexible patterns than
can be recorded easily with conventional Western notation. One has
only to look at transcriptions of, say, the chant of the Coptic church
(NG 4, 731, col. 1) to become suspicious of simple 'equalist' or
'mensualist' interpretations. Might not the singing of the ninth century be
equally difficult to capture in modern written form?"
--
Peter Wilton
The Gregorian Association Web Page:
http://www.beaufort.demon.co.uk/
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