Tonal consciousness and the medieval West
By: Fiona McAlpine.
Series: Varia musicologica
Publisher: Peter Lang; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bern; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9783039115068
Subjects: Tonality -- History -- 500-1400; Musical intervals and scales -- History -- 500-1400; Music theory -- History -- 500-1400
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A music in search of a theory; title: The dorian modes : Protus and the world of Gregorian chant; title: The phrygian modes : deuterus and the emergence of the composer; title: The "major" modes : tritus, tetrardus and the coming-of-age of the vernacular.