Peter Wilton wrote:
>As to ornamentation, I would suggest that in chant, we can't be sure how
>closely a "score" was adhered to, or what ornamentation there was.
>There are neumes which probably denote ornaments, but we don't know how
>they were performed. This might, however, suggest that ornamentation
>was defined, and that it is unlikely that other, unnoted sorts of
>ornamentation could have been added as well. As for later music, I
>agree Peres' experiments seem rather absurd, particularly making baroque
>neo-Gallican chant sound Eastern Orthodox!
Gee, his neo-Gallican chant performances don't sound Eastern Orthodox to
me... what do others think about that?
Matthew Westphal
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