EUGÉNE YSAYË
Aug 31, 2018 · 4 min read

The human voice and the hand-made instrument are obviously the twin origins of music. Folk-singers and instrumentalists soon joined forces and, over time, composers enlarged their palette to handle vast canvases, like that of Mahler in his Symphony of a Thousand. By comparison with that monstrosity, a single line of music, as in Gregorian chant, might seem, to some, rather impoverished. Yet the monodic is not necessarily monotonous. The solo voice, unaccompanied…

