The Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory

Contents

• Introduction: Guido's hexachord: old facts and new questions
• Part I . Guidonian Solmization in Music Theory and Practice:
• 1. Guido's musical syllables: conflicting views from modern historiography
• 2. Inside the gamut: Guido of Arezzo and Hermannus Contractus on the major sixth
• 3. Hands off! Singing without syllables in the Middle Ages
• 4. The making of a system: medieval music semiotics in transition
• Interlude: All hexachords are 'soft'
• Part II . Reforming the Music Curriculum in the Age of Humanism:
• 5. Back to the monochord: church reform and music theory in the 15th century
• 6. Normalizing the humanist: Johannes Gallicus as a 'Follower of Guido'
• 7. Gafori's hand: forging a new Guido for a new humanist culture
• 8. Hexachordal theory and deductive method in Gioseffo Zarlino's Dimostrationi harmoniche (1571)
• Epilogue: Discarding the Guidonian image of early music
• Bibliography.