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Ubaldo di Saint-Amand, Musica. Reginone di Prüm, Epistola de harmonica institutione

Introduzione, traduzione e commento a cura di Alessandra Fiori

PB pp. XXX-255, € 48,00

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2010
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978-88-8450-385-5
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This volume is a collection of the first examples of medieval music theory contained in two complementary treatises: the first aimed largely at practice, the second at contemplation. The authors have taken on a musical system that is still open-ended, requiring organisation and regulation. Especially intent on the description of acoustics and notation, Ubaldo aids the reader throughout with examples taken from the liturgical tradition. Reginone places the phenomenon of music within a larger disciplinary framework and defines it historically by connection to the late classical and late antique theoretical traditions. However, it is worth noting that his letter is none other than an introduction to a Tonario, or an index of liturgical pieces arranged on the basis of mode (reproduced in original notation in this volume.) Though very different, both authors are called to carry out the same task: establish the guidelines of an ars in need of new rules to evolve.
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