In message <[log in to unmask]>, Michael
Walter <[log in to unmask]> writes
>> "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.
This could be quite a complicated question I think. Some chants have a
plethora of "fast" signs, e.g. the Holy Week Tracts. The voice
presumably moves quite fast. But it might be best seen as a highly
ornamented text-declamation. So the question then is: what is being
considered to move quickly or slowly, the "notes" or the text? So it
may not be appropriate to consider it a "fast" piece in Holy Week. But
equally it might make the chant on the whole a "fast" piece, rather than
just "some neumes".
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Peter Wilton
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