Mensuration and proportion signs : origins and evolution

Anna Maria Busse Berger

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 comple...

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Main Author: Berger, Anna Maria Busse.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1993
Series:Oxford monographs on music
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Physical Description:xi,271 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN(s):0198162308
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