Hello Peter
Le 01-Déc-98, Peter Wilton a écrit:
> I think we can infer from context that "lengthened" neumes in a melisma
> were sung at what can loosely be termed "syllabic value", and that other
> neumes imply a faster movement. Precisely how much faster or in what
> time-relation is impossible to say. I can quite believe, however, that a
> "celeriter" might have been present merely to be "emphatic", rather than
> to say "even faster than usual".
The chans was wery expressive. You can read in Musica Enchiriadis (and in a
lot of later treatises: «Quomodo vero tantam cum animis nostris musica
commuationem et societatem habeat, etsi scimus, quadam nos similitudine cum
illa compactos, edicere ad liquidum non valemus, nec solum diiudicare melos
possumus ex propria naturalitate sonorum, sed etiam rerum. *Nam affectus
rerum, que canuntur, oportet ut imitetur cantionis affectus*, ut in
tranquillis rebus tranquille fint neume, letifone in iucundis, merentes in
tristibus, *que dure sunt* dicta vel facta, *duris neumis exprimi*,
subitis, clamosis, incitatis, et ad ceteras qualitates eventuum et
affectuum *deformatis*. Item ut in unum terminentur particule neumarum
atque verborum. In talibus cum iudicatio nostra esse possit, plura sunt
tamen, que nos sub causis occultioribus lateant».
Meilleures salutations
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