<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="font-family: Garamond-LightNarrow;">There is, however, a very interesting little article by Hans Ulrich Lehmann, a Swiss composer and theory teacher, addressing the issue. He examines the intimate relationship between language-melody as well as text-rhythm and the </span><i style="font-family: Garamond-LightNarrow;">Gestalt</i><span style="font-family: Garamond-LightNarrow;"> of Soggetti. In addition to that, he also addresses the (however discrete) relationship between text-content and melodic </span><i style="font-family: Garamond-LightNarrow;">Gestalt</i><span style="font-family: Garamond-LightNarrow;">. He does all this with examples of Palestrina, but could have taken any other composer of the time. The principles are universe. The article appeared in the „105. Jahresbericht der Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel“ in 1971/72, pages 51-68. Since most of you will not have easy access to it, I attach the text below.</span><div style="font-family: Garamond-LightNarrow;">Heartily</div><div style="font-family: Garamond-LightNarrow;">Markus Jans</div><div style="font-family: Garamond-LightNarrow;">prof. em. Schola Cantorum Basiliensis</div><div style="font-family: Garamond-LightNarrow;">Hoschule für Alte Musik, Basel</div><div style="font-family: Garamond-LightNarrow;">Schalerstrasse 3</div><div style="font-family: Garamond-LightNarrow;">4054 Basel</div><div style="font-family: Garamond-LightNarrow;"></div></body></html>