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Tim Braithwaite
Andreas Ornithoparcus (1516) on Solmisation:
(Summary) The Rules of Solfaing When solfaing, the singer must be aware of the mode of the piece, since this will tell them what sort of...
Tim Braithwaite
Cardinal Domenico Capranica (1400-1458) on the singers of Pope Nicholas V
‘In honour of immortal God, the Supreme Pontiff Nicholas V filled the most sumptuous sanctuary that he had erected among the papal courts...
Tim Braithwaite
Denys van Leeuwen on Late Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Singing, Translated by Robert Redman (1533)
‘Whether descant may be commendable in the divine service, and of certain things which ought to be eschewed in song. Like as it is...
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