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Article: Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and Evolution.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1995
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 The Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The author describes her useful and provocative book as a report on what music theorists during the period ca. 1320 to ca. 1560 have to say about mensuration and proportion signs (loosely speaking: signs that tell the singer how the composer has organized rhythm). The book opens up as many avenues for further research as it sums up from past research, and for this reason it will be a useful reference work. It is written with authority and the presentation is very clear - not an easy accomplishment for a book devoted so rigorously to one of the most daunting topics in European music history.
But the book is much more than a report on what music theorists have to say. ...
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