there is a very delicate 4' stop
It seems to me that the pedal (with 16') enters with the choir
The consecutive fifths present here and there in these accompaniments serve a very useful purpose. Whereas in modern harmony, consecutive fifths are forbidden because of the leading tone and the weak degrees, - constituent elements in modern music, they are often permitted in the accompaniment of the chant when they enhance the modal scale. Gregorian scales are composed of independent degrees which
are not subject to one another. Therefore, the law of attraction (the leading tone, TI, subject to the tonic, DO) has no connection whatsoever in Gregorian accompaniment. This is not an invention of the author [Lapierre], but the fundamental teaching of Henri Potiron of the Solesmes School at the Gregorian Institute of Paris, of which the author is a graduate.
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