[PDF.66tx] The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music (AMS Studies in Music)

The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music (AMS Studies in Music)

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||14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.| Too technical for whom?|By ad modum Ytalicorum|I'll leave critical assessments of the book to others better suited to the task (though Atkinson's work is always first rate). As for the assertion that it is too technical, I would point out that it concerns a highly technical subject and is written first and foremost for specialists on medieval music and music theory. This doe| ||"The Critical Nexus is a milestone in every respect, which appeals to specialists and novices alike. It deserves to be ranked among the classic studies on the subject and will be of lasting value to anybody interested in the formation of music though

The Critical Nexus confronts an important and vexing enigma of early writings on music: why chant, which was understood to be divinely inspired, needed to be altered in order to work within the then-operative modal system. To unravel this mystery, Charles Atkinson creates a broad framework that moves from Greek harmonic theory to the various stages in the transmission of Roman chant, citing numerous music treatises from the sixth to the twelfth century. Out of t...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music (AMS Studies in Music)   |  Charles M. Atkinson. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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