critical nexus
Subtitle: tone-system, mode, and notation in early medieval music
By: Charles M. Atkinson
Series: AMS studies in music
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780195148886
Subjects: Music theory -- History -- 500-1400.; Music theory -- To 500 -- Influence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: Prologue. The heritage of antiquity; The eighth and ninth centuries. The reception of ancient texts in the Carolingian era ; The heritage of the church; The synthesis of ancient Greek theory and medieval practice. Hucbald of St. Amand and Regino of Prüm ; Alia musica ; Pseudo-Bernelinus, pseudo-Odo, and Guido d'Arezzo.