Music

On the Execution of Music, and Principally of Ancient Music

Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921; Bowie, Henry P., 1848-1921 [Translator]· 2 chapters· 4,919 words

MUSIC was written in a scrawl impossible to decipher up to the thirteenth century, when Plain Song[1] (_Plain Chant_) made its appearance in square and diamond-shaped notes. The graduals and introits had not yet been reduced to bars, but the songs of the troubadours appear to...

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1. Chapter 1

MUSIC was written in a scrawl impossible to decipher up to the thirteenth century, when Plain Song[1] (_Plain Chant_) made its appearance in square and diamond-shaped notes. The...

2. Chapter 2

Anciently music was not written as scrupulously as it is to-day, and a certain liberty was permitted to interpretation. This liberty went farther than one would think, resemblin...