The Language of the Modes
Subtitle: Studies in the History of Polyphonic Modality (Criticism and Analysis of Early Music)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: September 14, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780815333425
Subjects: Early music (up to c 1000 CE); Elements of music (eg harmony, melody, etc); Music Theory; Modern Music; Music/Songbooks; Music; History & Criticism - General; Instruction & Study - Theory; Music / General; History and criticism; Early works to 1800; Musical intervals and scales
First sentence: When Pietro Aaron published his treatise on the modes of polyphony in 1525, he boldly announced the novelty of his undertaking on the title page: Treatise on the nature and knowledge of all the modes of polyphonic music, not yet described by anyone else, composed by messer Pietro Aaron, Florentine musician, Canon in Rimini and steward of the Reverend and Magnificent Knight of Jerusalem, messer Sebastiano Michiel, Prior of Verine.