Full Description
A guide to performing or conducting Gregorian chant in a historically-informed way. It provides a Schenker-style analysis of individual chant pieces and identifies the structure pitches of the composition. The accompanying CD features short examples.
Contents
The role of modality; the role of rhetoric; making a conductor/singer score. Epilogue - the role of rhetoric in English chant. Appendices: letters and abbreviation used in St Gall and Laon 239; the rhythmic interpretation of two-note and three-note neume designs.