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  Oliver Gerlach August 9, 2016 9:29

  We already had these discussions, when I studied at Basel during the early 1990s. I am very sad to read that nothing has changed after 25 years. Nevertheless, I fear you might be right...

  There may be a lot of knowledge of neumes after lots of publications in the style of 'das problem der pes-quassus in ms X..' etc but there is hardly anyone out there who knows to make coherent, audible distinctions from one neume to the next, as if everyone is still singing from the Graduale Romanum simplex.. even from so-called semiologically informed groups, the distinctions are too little audible.
• martin spaink August 8, 2016 22:29

  There may be a lot of knowledge of neumes after lots of publications in the style of 'das problem der pes-quassus in ms X..' etc but there is hardly anyone out there who knows to make coherent, audible distinctions from one neume to the next, as if everyone is still singing from the Graduale Romanum simplex.. even from so-called semiologically informed groups, the distinctions are too little audible. 
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  Franz Karl PRASSL March 10, 2015 18:53

  We know a lot about details of historical performance practice(s).

  One should study serious explanations of neumes and their indications for interpretation, like the 3 books of Agustoni/Göschl (available in german, italian, french)