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Via The Chant Café, a public-domain classic instruction book on Gregorian chant available in its entirety online. Explains the neumes, the pronunciation, the modes, reciting tones, chironomy, psalmody, the quilisma, etc. Obviously there’s been more research done since 1910, but for those interested in chant for liturgical use based on the Solemnes traditions, this book is a fantastic resource, and you can’t argue with the price.

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  1. Those interested in this topic might wish to read today’s NY Times article about performance of this music in Georgia and at the Mostly Mozart Festival by Ensemble Basiani, a Georgian choir founded in 2000 and affiliated with the Georgian Patriarchate:
     
    Sounds fascinating!  Includes further info for learning more about this tradition.
     
    Enjoy, Michele <edwards (a) macalester.edu

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