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<i>The Critical Nexus: Tone-system, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music</i> (review)

Author(s) -

Pieter Mannaerts

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

notes

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.124

H-Index - 10

eISSN - 1534-150X

pISSN - 0027-4380

DOI - 10.1353/not.0.0305

Subject(s) - notation , tone (literature) , nexus (standard) , mode (computer interface) , history , art , speech recognition , computer science , linguistics , literature , philosophy , human–computer interaction , embedded system

These lines, certainly familiar to medievalists, may well be reckoned among the most important in Western music history. They represent the first description of the line diagram known as the staff, and are taken from Guido of Arezzo’s Prologus in antiphonarium (1030). The quotation stands at the end, and at the apogee, of Charles Atkinson’s study of early medieval tone systems, mode, and notation, because, as Atkinson explains,

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