Mensuration and Proportion Signs
Origins and Evolution
- Author: Berger, Anna Maria Busse
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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.