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Dolores Pesce.
The Affinities and Medieval Transposition.

Published Bloomington: Indiana U.P., 1987.
Series: Music: Scholarship & Performance.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 160×242×23mm.
Page count: xiv,239pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: the boards and spine on this copy are a bit blotched and faded — some mild wear on the edges and corners, residue of a small sticker on the front; page edges starting to fox a bit; looks in good order internally, text appears to be free of marking.


This item £20.00
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[Publisher’s price $49.95]
Weight without packaging: 606g.

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Contents: From Hucbald to Guido — origin of the concept; 11th- & 12th‑c. commentators — transposition & transformation; Hexachords — seats of the modes; Coniunctiae or transposition; Rise of octave species theory.
Appendices: Discussion of principal sedes according to Wilhelm; Passages on ‘transposition by necessity’; Chant citations in Merchatto’s discussion of the 8 modes; Treatises by Johannes Cochlaeus, Venceslaus Philomathes & Georg Rhau.

Illustrations: 10 monochrome text figures
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: 1
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 12pp
Indexes: Chants; General


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