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The Critical Nexus - Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music (Hardcover, New)
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The Critical Nexus - Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music (Hardcover, New)
Series: AMS Studies in Music
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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 this examination emerges the central point behind
the problem: the tone-system advocated by writers coming from the
Greek harmonic tradition was not suited to the notation of chant
and that this basic incompatibility led to the creation of new
theoretical constructs. By tracing the path of subsequent
adaptation at the nexus of tone-system, mode, and notation,
Atkinson promises new and far-reaching insights into what mode
meant to the medieval musician and how the system responded to its
inherent limitations.
Through a detailed examination of the major musical treatises from
the sixth through the twelfth centuries, this text establishes a
central dichotomy between classical harmonic theory and the
practices of the Christian church. Atkinson builds the foundation
for a broad and original reinterpretation of the modal system and
how it relates to melody, grammar, and notation. This book will be
of interest to all musicologists, music theorists working on mode,
early music specialists, chant scholars, and medievalists
interested in music.
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