HOW TO SING PLAIN CHANT - online book
A compilation of the practical rules and methods required to perform this ancient form of church music.
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distinctive rather than a disj unctive sign; it prevents the clashing or confusion of the neums and words, and, in particular, helps to keep clearly distinct a number of neums which may follow consecutively {neumae jubilorum). In the Graduates of 1890 and 1907, in place of this bar, small spaces were used between the neums or the words. |
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The Double Bar points out the alternate turns of the singers, the ending of the intonations, the beginning of the verses, or the conclusion of a piece of chant. But only in the last case does this bar signify any pause or any lengthening of the preceding notes.
The note immediately before a Quilisma should be slightly lengthened, and the Quilisma itself sung more lightly or softly. |
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