We are always trying to 'resurrect' a pure performance practice, which, really, is impossible. The only 'authentic' chant's singers are long gone and they weren't 'contriving', they were just being themselves.
but not solo organ, à la française... And he told me in a vision of the night:—
"There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,
And every single one of them is right!"
Tinctoris's Missa sine nomine has quite the range. I can't imagine pitching it higher; the tenors are already comfortably in their range.assuming it was sung at notated pitch
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