Hymn-melodies for the Whole Year From the Sarum Antiphonal and Other Ancient English Sources Together With Sequences for the Principal Seasons & Festivals
Excerpt from Hymn-Melodies for the Whole Year From the Sarum Antiphonal and Other Ancient English Sources: Together With Sequences for the Principal Seasons and Festivals The mss. By no means shew that uniformity of musical text which is so remarkable in the stricter and more elaborate Plainsong of the Gradual, for they seem to have been more subjected to the usual influences which cause variations in popular music. Considerable pains have been 'taken to find the best text of each melody, but, wherever possible, the ...
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Excerpt from Hymn-Melodies for the Whole Year From the Sarum Antiphonal and Other Ancient English Sources: Together With Sequences for the Principal Seasons and Festivals The mss. By no means shew that uniformity of musical text which is so remarkable in the stricter and more elaborate Plainsong of the Gradual, for they seem to have been more subjected to the usual influences which cause variations in popular music. Considerable pains have been 'taken to find the best text of each melody, but, wherever possible, the Sarum form of melody has been adopted in preference to others, not merely because of the pre-eminence of the Sarum use, but also because on the whole the Sarum forms are intrinsically among the best. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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