Psalms by Claude Goudimel

Why do some of the songs recently sound a little different from how we usually sing them?What is happening is that the musicians have been skipping certain rests in Psalm tunes written by the composer Claude Goudimel (e.g. Cantus Christi p.4, 8, 42, 100, etc.).Why are we skipping these rests in Goudimel’s tunes?There are several different editions or versions of Goudimel’s tunes and some experts have suggested that removing certain rests makes the music more singable and provides a more logical flow to the text. I confess that I was skeptical at first, but having tried this conceptHow do I know which rests we will sing and which we will skip?…

Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 by Jordan Doolittle

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