Music theory and its sources : antiquity and the Middle Ages
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Music theory and its sources : antiquity and the Middle Ages
（Notre Dame conferences in Medieval studies, 1）
University of Notre Dame Press, c1990
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Based on a conference held at the University of Notre Dame, Apr. 30-May 2, 1987; sponsored by the Medieval Institute and the Dept. of Music
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-303) and indexes
Contents of Works
- Arts critica and fata libellorum : the significance of codicology to text critical theory / Thomas J. Mathiesen
- Reconstructing lost Byzantine sources for MSS Vat. BAV gr. 2338 and Ven. BNM gr. VI.3 : what is an ancient music treatise? / André Barbera
- A preliminary analysis of the organization of Ptolemy's harmonics / Jon Solomon
- Techniques of scholarship in medieval Arabic musical treatises / Amnon Shiloah
- Classical and late Latin sources for ninth-century treatises on music / Nancy Phillips
- Glosses on Boethius' De institutione musica / Michael Bernhard
- The study of ancient sources of music theory in the medieval university / Michael Huglo
- The influence of Aristotle on French university music texts / Jeremy Yudkin
- Greek text and Latin transrations of the Aristotelian musical problems : a preliminary account of the sources / F. Alberto Gallo
- The illustration of music theory in the late Middle Ages : some thoughts on its principles and a few examples / Tilman Seebass
- Marchetto's influence : the manuscript evidence / Jan Herlinger
- Boethius in the Renaissance / Claude V. Palisca
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Description
This collection of essays argues that early music theory is more interesting than commonly held and that its broad and loose definition in antiquity and the Middle Ages allows for the inclusion of a plethora of intellectual pursuits under the heading of "Music Theory".
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