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    Tim Braithwaite

    Denys van Leeuwen on Late Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Singing, Translated by Robert Redman (1533)

    ‘Whether descant may be commendable in the divine service, and of certain things which ought to be eschewed in song. Like as it is declar...

    Tim Braithwaite

    Hieronymus de Moravia (late 13th century) on the use of Harmonic Flowers in Chant

    ‘The harmonic flower [flos harmonicus] is, however, an ornament of the voice or sound, and a very fast and storm-like vibration. Some flow...

    Tim Braithwaite

    Adhémar de Chabannes on French and Italian Articulation (11th c.)

    ‘All the singers of France have learnt the Italian style that they now call ‘French’, but cannot express perfectly the tremulous...

    Tim Braithwaite

    Notker of St Gall's Letter Describing the Significative Letters

    Notker sends greeting to brother Lantbert. At your request, I have taken pains to explain as well as I could...

    Tim Braithwaite

    Johannes Tinctoris on 'Counterpoint' and 'Res Facta' (1477)

    ‘Moreover, simple as much as diminished counterpoint is made in two ways, that is, either in writing or mentally. Counterpoint...

    Tim Braithwaite

    Fermatas in Fifteenth-Century Polyphony: A Notated Cadenza

    A Gloria from an unknown mass setting by Estienne Grossin. Check out the ossia cadenza!

    Tim Braithwaite

    John of Salisbury on Florid Singing (12th Century)

    ‘It pollutes the very practice of devotion that in the sight of God... by the debauchery of their wanton voices, by their self-display, b...

     

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