HOW TO SING PLAIN CHANT - online book

A compilation of the practical rules and methods required to perform this ancient form of church music.

	5°
	Rule: The MEDIATION, for both methods, begins generally two syllables before the last accent, and the last accented syllable is sung to the note SI in the first method, and to MI in the second method. But if the third syllable before the last accent be an unaccented syllable of a word of three or more syllables, it also is sung to the same note as the second syllable before the accent.