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As it is necessary to beat time in order to produce correctly the measured rhythm of modern music,so also is it necessary to beat time if it be desired to produce perfectly
![]() To do this correctly it is necessary to know where the rhythmical thesis ox ictus occurs. In the Solesmes editions of the chant, this is marked by a little perpendicular stroke placed above or below a note (See Appendix.) But where the thesis is not so marked,as in Dominican books, it may be found, if the following rules be attended to.
![]() group forms a Pressus with the note following, for then the thesis falls on the first note of the Pressus.
* For direction in this matter see: Les Vocalises Grigoriennes, by Dom. A. Mocquereau, O.S.B. (Descl£e & Co., Rome.) |
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