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Is it fair to forever bind Dom Guéranger to what he wrote about “barbarous archaisms” in 1855?
I don’t think our readers are interested in what we say about Gregorian rhythm—they’re interested only in what we can demonstrate.
“If you begin by telling a man that in a word like 𝐷𝑒𝑢𝑠 the first syllable corresponds to the weak beat, the second to the strong beat of a modern bar, the only thing accomplished will be to bewilder him thoroughly.” —Father Bewerunge
My humble attempt at singing the Introit for the 3rd Sunday of Advent in accordance with the official rhythm.
When it comes to Gregorian harmonizations, this piece is surely the “pons asinorum.”
The greatest choirmaster of Solesmes and chef d’atelier of the Paléographic Musicale.
“We request His Eminence the Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites the permission to point out the manifest danger of adopting either of these solutions.” — Dom Joseph Gajard, OSB
