Recordings of Plautine Cantica
I present here recordings of all or part of four Plautine cantica, with melodies I have improvised myself, but with rhythms following Plautus’ metrical patterns, singing long syllables at twice the length of short syllables.
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Cistellaria 203-28: A song dominated by one meter type.
Trinummus 223-43: A song that begins in one meter type, which breaks down as the song proceeds.
Cistellaria 671-94: A song made up of juxtaposed blocks of individual meters.
Pseudolus 1246-80a: A song in which various meters are jumbled together.