The Critical Nexus

The Critical Nexus PDF Author: Charles M. Atkinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195148886
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Book Description
The Critical Nexus is the first book to trace the development of the notational matrix of Western music from Antiquity to the fourteenth century. It shows how principles of ancient Greek theory were grafted onto medieval practice, leading to a theory of both tone-system and mode, and a concomitant system of musical notation, that is uniquely Western.