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Mensuration and Proportion Signs

Name: Mensuration and Proportion Signs
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 04522416
Price: 270.76 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Anna Maria Busse Berger
ISBN: 9780198162308

Origins and Evolution

Anna Maria Busse Berger

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 04522416

Publishers Oxford University Press, January 1993

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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 very 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. The author also traces the evolution of the mensural notational system to the threshold of the modern system of notation. In the process, the exact meaning of everyday mensuration and proportion sign encountered in music and theory from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century is analysed and elucidated. The investigation results in a revision of many currently held views concerning the significance and development of early time signatures and will be indispensable to scholars and performers of late medieval and Renaissance music.