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That Tallis tune never fails to give me gooseflesh. What amazes me about it is its fearless simplicity and straightforwardness, which in my view lends it much of its beauty.
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Yes, I agree. I also think that its beauty owes much to the mode it is written in which is the phrygian. That F and D natural change completely the harmonic texture.
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That's something I've always wanted to do - go digging around in European libraries for unknown music and publishing it. They don't let just anybody in such places to do that, though, and I suppose that's for the best.
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Indeed. While I was studying musicology (which wasn't for too long) our teacher of old music notation told us that even for him wasn't easy to be given permission to examine old manuscripts at the Vatican library. They all are an invaluable treasure of human culture and civilization and they have very strict rules concerning who can examine them and who can't (he had told us what he was going through in order to be given permission, but I don't remember).
Alexandros