‘Nonetheless there are others who are of the opinion that half of the note value of the syncopated semibreve is deemed to be dead—whereby...

‘How often may the master [Palestrina] himself have conducted it [the Missa Papae Marcelli] with sublime enthusiasm, full of the fire...

‘The preceding examples receive their colouring from the discrimination of the singer; but a still nicer task remains for him to execute,...