To Press or not to Press: Relationships between the Earliest Chant Manuscripts Reconsidered

Elemans, Jacqueline (2004) To Press or not to Press: Relationships between the Earliest Chant Manuscripts Reconsidered. Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 45 (1-2). pp. 95-104. ISSN 0039-3266

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Abstract

The occurrence of the isolated pressus in the Gregorian Mass Proprium chants was examined in 11 early manuscripts. The early written tradition for the pressus in isolation is not at all uniform. The frequency of a pressus notation varies widely from one source to another. The author sketched the potential power of standard non parametric statistical theory in order to overcome the problem of contamination that until now hampered the study of relationships between manuscripts. The notation of the pressus in isolation is used as an illustration.

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