"The link is broken now.
Is it the first or second edition?  The second edition has corrected some typographical errors, and a larger index."

"Raphael,
The book is available from Solesmes, but it's not advertised in Solesmes' webstore.  You can contact them and request a copy, but they will ask for your Paypal or credit card number over email, so be smart.  Or private-message me if you…"

"Antonio Thomas said:
D'où la conclusion logique que la distinction est dans l'information de nuances agogiques et pas dans des durées de proportion fixe 1+1 =2.



The musico-logical conclusion is that such passages either are corrupt in the written…"

""... so that the actual durations are, perhaps, 1.75, 0.25, and 1. ... so that 1.66 + 0.34 + 1 and 1.85 + 0.15 + 1 are both perceived by the ear as interpretations approximately equal to 1.75 + 0.25 + 1, as long as the total duration of the first…"

"I regard the first two notes of (salvasti) me in the gradual Exaltabo te as exemplifying syncopation.
I also regard the fifth and sixth notes of sum in the Laon 239 notation of the gradual In Deo speravit as exemplifying syncopation.
Then there are…"

"Concerning the Micrologus:
"Tenor" in Guido's own usage is the duration of any note, not just the end of a phrase. (I will address "ultimae vocis mora" later in this post.) Also from Guido:
Musica vox fit motione; motio autem habet in se tenorem qui…"

"Alasdair, I do not see the discrepancy you see between the Commemoratio brevis and the performance tradition.  My replies to each of your points:

that the example of the antiphon Ego sum via indicates that a single pitch on a syllable is regarded…"

"One can further argue that it is not the norm for communal Christian chant to allow pitches of intermediate metrical values to knock the regularity of the rhythm off kilter such that a regular rhythm is no longer to be heard; that it is the norm to…"

"I would advance the argument that, because of its dating, Einsiedeln 121 ties into then contemporary sung repertoire which, by its very nature, exhibits “ingenuity”. I would also advance the argument that one can only copy from manuscripts…"

"A/the tenor, that is, the 'mora' of the last note - which, however small it is in a syllable, is larger in a part and longest in a distinction - is a sign of division in these. And so it is necessary that the melody should be clapped as if with…"

""I have never thought of liquescence as being particularly connected either with melody transmission or consonant clusters, as you mention in point3."
Case 1: If you have heard "Ad te levavi" or a similar figure only ever sung with that 'liquescent'…"

"Jerome F. Weber said:
If the notation is rhythmically ambiguous, the Cardine approach should receive as much respect as van Biezen or his predecessors. Earlier criticisms of nuanced rhythm usually referred to mensuralist theory as if eight 20c.…"

"My observations on the aforementioned examples of notae debiles.
1. Communion Jerusalem (Graduale Triplex, p. 370).
The 'l' in 'Jerusalem' is a small consonant cluster, and moreover a liquid consonant, allowing for the second note of the clivis over…"

"Alasdair Codona said:
I would be interested to see how you interpret the Commemoratio brevis with regard to the neume at the start of Sciant gentes



Commemoratio Brevis says that "all notes are long or short, always one twice the duration of the…"

"Prof. Ricossa,
Thank you for your continued recordings. With each recording, your rhythm is growing closer to my view.
Excellent point on the Baroque. Recently I read a similar discussion on controversy over Bach's intended meaning of the fermata.…"