The Affinities and Medieval Transposition
- Author: Pesce, Dolores
Dolores Pesce has now provided reliable and more comprehensive coverage of the available theoretical material, and her books should be consulted by all interested in the subject
The Affinities and Medieval Transposition
- Author: Pesce, Dolores
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Dolores Pesce has now provided reliable and more comprehensive coverage of the available theoretical material, and her books should be consulted by all interested in the subject
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The concept of affinities, or pitch relationships, was fundamental to modal theory in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. For the first time, Dolores Pesce brings together theoretical perspectives on this subject from the end of the ninth century to the middle of the sixteenth, spanning the ideas of Hucbald through Guido of Arezzo, Jacques de Liege, Marchetta of Padua,Tinctoris, and Aaron to those of Glareanus.
Pesce provides a comprehensive survey of problematic chants and of medieval solutions for them. She also traces the arguments that led to the rejection of the affinities and the acceptance of transposition in the modern sense. Scholars will find this volume invaluable for addressing issues related to modal classification and notational practices, in both chant and polyphony.
Contents
- ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER I . FROM HUCBALD TO GUIDO: ORIGINS OF THE CONCEPT HucbaldOs De harmonica institutione Musica enchiriadis and Scolica enchiriadis Dialogus de musica BernoOs Prologus in tonarium Micrologus and Epistola by Guido of Arezzo II. THE ELEVENTH- AND TWELF
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX A Discussion of Principal Sedes According to Wilhelm B Passages on oTransposition by NecessityO C Chant Citations in MarchettoOs Discussion of the Eight Modes D Treatises by Johannes Cochlaeus, Venceslaus Philomathes and Georg Rhau NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX OF CHANTS GENERAL
- INDEX
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