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The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music (Ams Studies in Music)
The Critical Nexus ToneSystem Mode and Notation in Early Medieval Music - Ams Studies in Music
Author: Charles M. Atkinson
The Critical Nexus confronts an important and vexing enigma of early writings on music: why chant, which was understood to be divinely inspired, needed to be altered in order to work within the then-operative modal system. To unravel this mystery, Charles Atkinson creates a broad framework that moves from Greek harmonic theory to the va...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195148886
ISBN-10: 0195148886
Publication Date: 12/19/2008
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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