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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 21 January 1993
- ISBN 9780198162308
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages284 pages
- Size 244x160x23 mm
- Weight 618 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, line drawings, tables, music examples 0
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Long description:
In the fourteenth century composers and theorists invented mensuration and proportion signs that allowed them increased flexibility and precision in notating a very wide range of rhythmic and metric relationships. The origin and interpretation of these signs is one of the least understood and most complex issues in music history. This study represents the first attempt to see the origin of musical mensuration and proportion signs in the context of other measuring systems of the fourteenth century. The author also traces the evolution of the mensural notational system to the threshold of the modern system of notation. In the process, the exact meaning of everyday mensuration and proportion sign encountered in music and theory from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century is analysed and elucidated. The investigation results in a revision of many currently held views concerning the significance and development of early time signatures and will be indispensable to scholars and performers of late medieval and Renaissance music.
`excellent book ... performers and editors ... could do a lot worse than stay at home and read this important book'
Musical Times
Table of Contents:
Abbreviations; Introduction; The representation and interpretation of mensuration signs; The origins of the mensural system and mensuration signs; The relationship between perfect and imperfect time; The relationship between major and minor prolation; Diminution by stroke and by mode signs; Proportion signs; Conclusions; Appendix. Index of signs; Bibliography; Index of compositions; General index.
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