On 1 Dec 98, at 13:38, Geoffrey Chew wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Michael Walter wrote:
>
> > > I'd be interested to know what they are, and of what date.
> >
> > Good question. I searched my bookshelves for one and half an hour
> > but, admittedly, didn't find any apt quotation. I am pretty sure I read
> > more than once a passage referring to the slow singing, presumably in
> > texts of the Early Middle Ages.
>
> "T" for trahere or tenere for the Christus passages in the Passions?
I don't think so because the litterae significativae are only related to
some neumes within a chant, not to a chant as a whole.
Michael Walter
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