The teaching and accompaniment of plainsong . A was purely automatic;that these notes took the last two syllables of thehalf verse, whether they were strong or weak. Butthe harmonization must not be automatic; itshould reflect the verbal accentuation. Tone II. presents no new features except that inthe Plainsong notation its reciting note is F, whichis too low for ordinary use, so it is transposedup a minor third, and the signature of Cconsequently becomes that of E flat. Thus allthe Ds in the accompaniment are normallynatural, because if the Tone were in its originalseat B would normally be n
The teaching and accompaniment of plainsong . A was purely automatic;that these notes took the last two syllables of thehalf verse, whether they were strong or weak. Butthe harmonization must not be automatic; itshould reflect the verbal accentuation. Tone II. presents no new features except that inthe Plainsong notation its reciting note is F, whichis too low for ordinary use, so it is transposedup a minor third, and the signature of Cconsequently becomes that of E flat. Thus allthe Ds in the accompaniment are normallynatural, because if the Tone were in its originalseat B would normally be natural. But we may ACCOMPANIMENT OF PLAINSONG 69 also use D flat, because this note represents in atransposed condition the allowable B flat. Inverse 3, where we end on an accented syllable andcut the mediation short in consequence, the Dnatural becomes a very useful note in the harmonyand makes it perfectly clear that the second Tone isbeing accompanied, and not the eighth :— Tone II. o ife sta-blish thy word in thy s£r - vant that I may.
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