Todd Michel McComb ([log in to unmask]) wrote:


Deryk Barker writes:
>
>>Well, the English Cathedral sound is part of an unbroken vocal tradition
>>that goes back something like 5 centuries and is AFAIK unique.  Worth
>>preserving, perhaps.
>
>The "something like" is more like 3.  See John Potter's book.

I'll stand corrected, although the 5 came from an interview I read a while
back with Herreweghe? (Some non-British early music type).

>Your comments on preserving can certainly stand on that basis, but I don't
>want the sound anywhere near my music.

Now that's a whole nuther matter.

Deryk Barker
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