CONTENTS. Preface 7 Introduction 11 FIRST PART. THE ELEMENTS OF PLAIN CHANT. Chapter I. — NOTATION. 13 1. Notes 13 2. The Staff 17 3. The Clefs 17 4. Custos (Guide) 18 5. Accidentals 18 Chapter II.— THE INTERVALS 19 1. Seconds 19 2. Thirds 21 3. Fourths 23 4. Fifths 24 The Singing of the Intervals: (a) Tone Formation 25 (b) Vowels 26 (c) Consonants 26 (d) Accent 27 Chapter III.— THE MODES 27 SECOND PART. THE MELODIES OF PLAIN CHANT. Plain Chant Melody 31 I. MUSICAL FORM IN GENERAL. Chapter I.— ELEMENTS CONSTITUTING THE MUSICAL FORM OF CHANT 32 (a) The Melodic Element 33 (b) The Rhythmic Element 33 (c) The Dynamic Element 34 Chapter I. — ELEMENTS— Continued: 1. The Accent as a Melodic Element in Plain Chant 34 (a) The Tonic Accent 34 (b) The Logic Accent 35 (c) The Pathetic Accent 35 2. The Pauses as Form Building Elements of Plain Chant 37 Chapter II.— THE LAWS OF PLAIN CHANT FORMS 38 Practical Conclusions from the Observations made 43 1. Accents 43 2. Pauses 46 3. Note Duration 47 II. APPLIED MUSICAL FORM. Practical Application of the Fundamental Laws 50 A. SCHEMATIC CHANT. Types of Schematic Chant 51 I. SCHEMATIC MELODIES. 1. THE LITURGltAL RECITATIVES 52 (a) The Epistle 52 (b) The Oration 54 (c) The Chapter 56 (d) The Lessons 57 (e) The Gospel 59 (f) Preface and Pater Noster 61 (g) Versicula 66 2. THE PSALMODY 68 Introductory Remarks 68 (a) The Ordinary Psalm Chants 69 1. General Principles 69 The Intonation 69 The Dominant, or Psalm, Tone 70 The Final (Cadence) 71 Cadences with One Accent 71 Final with Double Accents 73 2. THE PSALMODY— Continued: 2. The Different Psalm Tones 74 The First Tone 74 The Second Tone 77 The Third Tone 78 The Fourth Tone 81 The Fifth Tone 82 The Sixth Tone 83 The Seventh Tone 84 The Eighth Tone 87 The Tonus Peregrinus 89 3. Rules Governing the Rendering of Psalm Chants 90 (&) Some Examples of Richer Psalmody 93 II. SCHEMATIC, OR METRICAL, TEXTS. i. HYMNS 95 Their History 95 The Different Kinds of Hymns 96 (a) The Iambic Verse Metre 97 (b) The Trochaic Verse Metre 100 (c) The Sapphic Verse Metre 101 (d) The Asclepiad Verse Metre 102 The Elision 103 2. TROPES AND SEQUENCES 105 B. INDEPENDENT CHANTS. The Independent Chants 106 1. SIMPLE CHANTS 107 Practical Conclusions 114 2. FLORID CHANTS 118 First Grade 118 Second Grade 128 Third Grade 131 3. VERY FLORID, or MELISMATIC, CHANTS 136 APPENDIX 147 Digitized by Google., Electronic reproduction, Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002, digitized, Description based on print version record