9780198162308-0198162308-Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and Evolution (Oxford Monographs on Music)

Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and Evolution (Oxford Monographs on Music)

ISBN-13: 9780198162308
ISBN-10: 0198162308
Edition: 1
Author: Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publication date: 1993
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Format: Hardcover 288 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780198162308
ISBN-10: 0198162308
Edition: 1
Author: Anna Maria Busse Berger
Publication date: 1993
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Format: Hardcover 288 pages

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Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and Evolution (Oxford Monographs on Music) (ISBN-13: 9780198162308 and ISBN-10: 0198162308), written by authors Anna Maria Busse Berger, was published by Clarendon Press in 1993. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other History & Criticism (Music) books. You can easily purchase or rent Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and Evolution (Oxford Monographs on Music) (Hardcover, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used History & Criticism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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In the fourteenth century composers and theorists invented mensuration and proportion signs that allowed them increased flexibility and precision in notating a wide range of rhythmic and metric relationships. The origin and interpretation of these signs is one of the least understood and most complex issues in music history. This study represents the first attempt to see the origin of musical mensuration and proportion signs in the context of other measuring systems of the fourteenth century. Berger analyzes the exact meaning of every mensuration and proportion sign in music and theory from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, and offers revisions of many currently-held views concerning the significance and development of early time signatures.

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