第134页 western musical history before the baroque

boethius:nothing is more characteristic ofhumannature than to be soothed by sweet modes and stirred up by their opposites.infants,youths,and old people as well are so naturally attuned to musical modes by a kind of spontaneous feeling that no age is without delight in sweet son.
the Gregorian chant:
speaking yourselves in psalm and hymns and spiritual songs,singing and making,melody in your heart to the lord
it is monophonic in texture and does not know the third dimension of harmony and counterpoint..its freely flowing vocal line is subtly attuned to the inflections of the Latin text
avoids the excitement of wide leaps and dynamic contrasts