On 1 Dec 98, at 11:07, Peter Wilton wrote:
> In message <[log in to unmask]>,
> Michael Walter <[log in to unmask]> writes
> >There are sources for the slow performance of chant during solemn
> >feasts.
>
> 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. An indirect hint gives
the Commemoratio brevis with the distinction between slow and
fast chants. (Maybe that I read about this also in a monastic
consuetudo.) [Poor answer, of course, but then I was not interested
in this question and didn't make marginal notes.]
> >But are there any sources for "fast rhythmic directions"
> >(other than _assumptions_)? And what means "fast" in this
> >context?
>
> Related to my enquiry above, one can only speculate to what extent the
> early "nuances" continued to be performed after pitch-readable notations
> came into general use. However, I was really thinking about the
> nuance-rich manuscripts which don't seem to suggest any difference of
> perfomance practice between Holy Week and any other season.
I wouldn't suspect that a difference of performance practice is given
in the notation for the single chants as a whole were sung slowly
(including the proprium).
Michael Walter
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