Download or read book The Teaching and Accompaniment of Plainsong (Classic Reprint) written by Francis Burgess and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Teaching and Accompaniment of Plainsong It produces something like periodic rhythm, and is more akin to folk - song than to real Plainchant. But a sudden interruption by means of a melodic ornament in one of these old tunes restores at once the primitive ideal of ecclesiastical atmosphere by making it impossible to dance or to beat strict time to the melody. The main points to remember are, however, that both the simple and ornate species of Plainsong are equally old in the West, that the ornate kind is Oriental, and that the fusion of the earliest Plainsong with the Latin liturgy is in itself the result of adaptation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.