The repertoire that par excellence represents the high point of a cappella music is Gregorian chant. Generation of singers, monks and laypeople, have sung these beautiful monophonic melodies, trying to attune their heart to the movement of the neumes in their melismatic arabesques.
Many years ago, I was in Malibu (California) for a conference on choral m…
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