"Twentieth-century musicians endeavouring to re-create the music of earlier periods face a variety of challenges. Robert Toft addresses one of these: in the sixteenth century, sharps and flats were rarely notated in the sources of vocal music. Singers were expected to be familia…
"Twentieth-century musicians endeavouring to re-create the music of earlier periods face a variety of challenges. Robert Toft addresses one of these: in the sixteenth century, sharps and flats were rarely notated in the sources of vocal music. Singers were expected to be familia…
The oral traditions surrounding the application of sharps and flats to 16th century vocal music are documented in relation to theoretical literature, vocal sources, and intabulations of vocal music.
The oral traditions surrounding the application of sharps and flats to 16th century vocal music are documented in relation to theoretical literature, vocal sources, and intabulations of vocal music. Special reference is made to the motets of Josquin Desprez, Clemens non Papa, an…
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"Tonal Pitch Space builds on, and in many ways completes, the project of Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff's influential A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Like the earlier volume, it is both an original music-theoretic treatise and a contribution to the cognitive science of musi…
'Tonal Pitch Space' presents a model of diatonic space that quantifies intuitions of the relative distances of pitches, chords and keys.
'Tonal Pitch Space' presents a model of diatonic space that quantifies intuitions of the relative distances of pitches, chords and keys.
"Tonal Pitch Space builds on, and in many ways completes, the project of Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff's influential A Generative Theory of Tonal Music. Like the earlier volume, it is both an original music-theoretic treatise and a contribution to the cognitive science of musi…