"Thanks, Emilysue, for your suggestion!
I fear I do not need to read McGee's book to understand that discussing on the base of the currrent ignorance concerning a lost tradition is pointless (even if Leech-Wilkinson's discussion of the problem with…"

"The closest we have is Tim McGee's The Sound of Medieval Song, which was published in 1998, so 20 years ago. It's rather like reading a doctoral dissertation, and I've heard no evidence that any recordings have been done based on it."

"I'm a bit late to the conversation, but isn't it also possible that the quilisma is not the same in all places or all times? So sometimes it's a vibrato, but other places/times it may be a trill, or even varying the volume instead of pitch! How come…"

"No, actually I did not."

"Hello Oliver, I do not pretend to know what it means, but at least I'm trying to find a coherent and convincing interpretation, rather than stay safe and sorry. By the way, did yoy evef receive that cd I prepared for you and sent over?"

"Dear Martin
How nice to read some lines of yours! I missed you during the last years in this network.
The continuation on the same note exists for quilisma as well as for oriscus, but how can you tell what it means? I inserted here the example of…"

"having only just now read the discussion above, I can personally avow that the times I have sang the verysame O virtus sapientiae to my Indian music friends and teachers, they all agreed it was a beautiful composition in raga Bhairavi. I often sing…"

"Thanks for bringing this up Christoph! Performance practice is really considered too little by too few.. Hildegard's notations have a form of quilisma that is rather special. In the Vieux-Fond manuscripts, a quilisma is believed to be always…"

"Christoph, thanks for sharing your ideas. Unfortunately I have to disagree with the tenor of your post. Firstly you posit a lot of "has and need to's" for performers of medieval repertoires. On a very basic level musicians don't need to do any of…"

"One of the aspects that have almost not been considered concerning performance of Western Early Christian traditions is the problem of the scales, intervals, and just intonation, while we know from the treatises that the theoretical scale was the…"

"Beside all the valuable commentaries I've read, I think it is important to keep the focus in the nature of music since it is a performing art. Music is, obviously, not a fixed object that con be preserved and exactly reproduced, it works differently…"

"You might be also interested in the newest publication by Manuel Ferreira:
Ferreira, Manuel Pedro. "Rhythmic paradigms in the Cantigas de Santa Maria: French versus Arabic precedent." PMM 24 (2015): 1–24. doi:10.1017/S0961137115000017."

"Federico Corriente is very strict, but we should keep in mind, that converted Berbers burnt the books of the Mezquita library and the Spanish Inquisition did a lot to destroy the traces of local (Andalusian) culture, the Reconquista was rather…"

"It is a common Andalusian phenomenon of intertextuality (the kharja was in between different poetic genres) which already existed before the Cantigas. I just said that there were also transcriptions of Romance dialects in different characters, not…"

"Thanks Oliver, I'm familiar with that excellent article by Manuel Pedro Ferreira. But you're not (as I surmised from your original statement) actually claiming that anything written in Hebrew script in the medieval period is identifiable with the…"