The teaching and accompaniment of plainsong . asgiven rise to several large books of accompanimentsby various Continental organists. In this Kyrie wefind a degree of melodic ornament very muchin advance of anything which so far we haveconsidered in these accompaniments. We find thewords of the text occurring only at the beginningand end of the musical phrase, so thatconsiderations of verbal accentuation are confinedto the earlier and latter notes of the melody. Allthe intermediate section is taken up with pureornamentation; the words temporarily disappearfrom view and are lost in the music. Th
The teaching and accompaniment of plainsong . asgiven rise to several large books of accompanimentsby various Continental organists. In this Kyrie wefind a degree of melodic ornament very muchin advance of anything which so far we haveconsidered in these accompaniments. We find thewords of the text occurring only at the beginningand end of the musical phrase, so thatconsiderations of verbal accentuation are confinedto the earlier and latter notes of the melody. Allthe intermediate section is taken up with pureornamentation; the words temporarily disappearfrom view and are lost in the music. Therefore itis perfectly legitimate for the organ to take itsrhythm from the notes at the point where the textceases and to base its harmonic movements upon themusical stresses ; indeed it must do this throughoutthe middle section in order to move at all. The first harmonization is by Dr. Peter Wagner,director of the Gregorian Academy at Freiburg in ACCOMPANIMENT OF PLAINSONG 77 Switzerland, and one of the professors at theUniversity:— 1™^.
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