The Affinities and Medieval Transposition / Dolores Pesce.

• Author: Pesce, Dolores.
• Place / Publishing House: Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1987.; ©1987.
• Year of Publication: 1987
• Language: English
• Series: Music--scholarship and performance
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource xiv, 239 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Includes indexes.

The concept of affinities, or pitch relationships, was fundamental to modal theory in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. For the first time, Delores Pesce brings together theoretical perspectives on this subject from the end of the ninth century to the middle of the sixteenth, spanning the ideas of Hucbald through Guido of Arezzo, Jacques de Liège, Marchetto of Padua, Tinctoris, and Aaron to those of Glareanus. Pesce provides a comprehensive survey of problematic chants and of medieval solutions for them. She also traces the arguments that led to the rejection of the affinities and the acceptance of transposition in the modern sense. Scholars will find this volume invaluable for addressing issues related to modal classification and notational practices, in both chant and polyphony.

Table of Contents

From Hucbald to Guide : origins of the concept. Hucbald's De harmonica institutione ; Musica enchiriadis and Scolica enchiriadis ; Dialogus de musica ; Berno's Prologus in tonarium ; Micrologus and Epistola by Guido of Arezzo -- The eleventh and twelfth-century commentators : transposition and transformation. Liber argumentorum and liber specierum ; Musica by Hermannus Contractus ; Musica by Wilhelm of Hirsau ; De musica by Aribo ; Commentarius anonymus in Micrologum Guidonis Aretini ; The Leipzig treatise ; The Leipzig tonary ; Quaestiones in musica ; Anonymous Wolf ; De musica by John ; The Cistercian treatises -- Hexachords : seats of the modes. A treatise by Johannes de Garlandia ; Tractatus de tonis by Petrus de Cruce ; Practica artis musice by Amerus ; Tractatus de musica by Magister Lambertus ; Tractatus de musica by Jerome of Moravia ; Speculum musicae by Jacques de Liege ; Luciarium by Marchetto of Padua ; Quatuor principalia musicae ; Cantuagium by Heinrich Eger von Kalkar ; Coussemaker's Anonymous I -- Coniunctae or transposition. The Berkeley manuscript ; Anonymous, Rome, Vatican lat. 5129 ; Anonymous XI ; The Szalkai treatise ; Lectura by Petrus Tallanderius -- The rise of octave species theory. Declaratio musicae disciplinae by Ugolino of Orvieto ; Liber de natura et proprietetate tonorum by Johannes Tinctoris ; De preceptis artis musicae by Guilielmus Monachus ; Musices opusculum by Nocolaus Burtius ; Practica musicae by Franchinus Gaffurius ; Opus aureum musicae and Enchiridon musices by Nicolaus Wollick ; Musicae activae micrologus by Andreas Ornithoparchus ; The writings of Pietro Aaron ; The writings of Martin Agricola ; Scintille di musica by Giovanni Maria Langranco ; Recanetum de musica aurea by Stefano Vanneo ; The writings of Henricus Glareanus -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : Discussion of principal sedes according to Wilhelm -- Appendix B : Passages on "transposition by necessity" -- Appendix C : Chant citations in Marchetto's discussion of the eight modes -- Appendix D : Treatises by Johannes Cochlaeus, Vencelaus Philomathes and Georg Rhau.