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Solesmes
(very much accustomed to photographing
chant manuscripts) photographed the
so-called "plenary" session held at Appuldurcombe, where
Solesmes was then exiled.
It is written into the Solesmes handbook that, "You must be exiled
at least once every five years by the French government."
Pothier
("Master of us all") is at the center.
So are
Janssens and Mocquereau, bitter enemies (like a boa constrictor and
a mongoose).
Hear audio
samples, recorded at the 1904 Gregorian Congress:©
Rella (who
later took the Sistine Chapel choir on a tour of the USA)
is speaking HERE, but soon bursts into
song, singing the Vidi Aquam.
De
Santi, in the course of his very interesting SPEECH,
says:
| Our
grateful thanks go out to the Benedictine monks who have served
the Gregorian restoration so well, and in thanking them, I express
the feelings of everyone present at this moment. Here among us
is the master of us all, the Very Reverend Father Dom Joseph
Pothier; and here, too, is the eminent prior of Solesmes, Dom
André Mocquereau. All honor to these outstanding men, all
honor to those who make up the team of scholars of that famous
monastery. [he goes on to thank all the others who have forwarded
the Gregorian restoration, only without the high level of fame
and recognition given to Solesmes.] |
Baron Rudolph
Kanzler directs a choir singing the Veni
Sancte Spiritus.
I
am very much mistaken if I do not hear a counter-tenor joinging them.
An
excerpt from Pothier's SPEECH:
| Song
is natural to man, and is already discenible in ordinary speech.
Man, in speaking, naturally raises and lowers his voice, thus
producing a kind of music: the accentuation of language. Accentus
= Ad cantus, that is, a series of inflections of the
voice which, without being precisely a song, is something approaching
it. Accent is the soul of language, accentus
anima vocis. |
An
excerpt from Mocquereau's SPEECH:
|
Dom
Guéranger himself laid the foundations of our school.
In his Institutions Liturgiques, this is how, who was
first in the field, formulated the principles of restoration:
'When
manuscripts of different periods and countries agree upon a
particular reading, we can safely assert that we have rediscovered
the Gregorian phrase.'
|
The
great Dr. Peter Wagner is treated below:
Dr. Wagner has
said that Solesmes “showed neither a knowledge
of history nor musical taste, two things absolutely
necessary to perform well the task of editing. They merely copy manuscripts.”
(323 of Combe)
(Combe 331) On
April 9th, 1905, after Solesmes once again unwaveringly asserted its
“archaeological”
viewpoint, Wagner declared that he had “lost
all confidence in Solesmes.”
On March 2,
Wagner praised (in a memorandum) the work of the Editors (Mocquereau
and Solesmes),
but said that he had reservations as to the principles that guided
it, and stated, among other things,
that “work of this kind can only be a kind
of compromise.” (Combe 335-336)
This may well
refer to what he speaks of in his 1907 article, viz. the pure "philological"
method creating "a mode of singing that
has never and nowhere existed.”
April 18, 1905
Dr. Wagner takes the opportunity of Moc's “first attendance”
to praise the workshop
of Solesmes, and noted that there was “not
another scholar in the world who had at
his disposal such extensive and complete archives as those of Solesmes.”
(Combe, 289)
So impressed by Mocquereau's table presentation on Kyrie Fons Bonitatis,
he moves for a motion
of confidence in Solesmes (even though one had already
been issued).
This turned into a “confirmation” of Solesmes' motion of
cofidence.
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