> 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
I believe Dr. Berry's dissertation from Cambridge
University: "Performance of Chant in the Late
Middle Ages" (or something to that effect) speaks
of this issue. I don't have a copy in front of
me, sorry. She still lives in Barton outside
of Cambridge and could easily be contacted.
JDF
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