S&W OTD III: May Day 2k12

Today's workspace is my carrel in Loeb Music Library. Every music grad student gets one (first years generally have to share, like I do). It's a nice quiet, secluded, and relatively distraction-free place to get work done!

SentenceOfTheDay:

While the bulk of the above passage relates the purported origin of the sequence, my principal concern is the advice Notker receives from his teacher at the end of the anecdote: “the individual motions of the melody [motus cantilenae] should receive separate syllables [singulas syllabus, perhaps more accurately “individual syllables”].


Yep, still on the chant term paper.