The critical nexus
Subtitle: tone-system, mode, and notation in early medieval music
By: Charles M. Atkinson
Series: AMS studies in music; AMS studies in music
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780195148886
Subjects: Music theory -- History -- 500-1400; Music theory -- To 500 -- Influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-291) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The heritage of antiquity; title: The eighth and ninth centuries. The reception of ancient texts in the Carolingian era ; The heritage of the church; title: The synthesis of ancient Greek theory and medieval practice. Hucbald of St. Amand and Regino of Prüm ; Alia musica ; Pseudo-Bernelinus, Bern of Reichenau, pseudo-Odo, and Guido d'Arezzo.