Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music
by
Charles M. Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2008
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...