The Origins of Western Notation: Revised and Translated by Neil Moran. with a Report on «The Reception of the «Universale Neumenkunde, 1970-2010»

by Constantin Floros

Modern music notation developed out of the so-called square notation and this out of the Latin neumes. The question of where these neumes came from has long been the subject of scholarly debate. As the author demonstrated in his three-volume Universale Neumenkunde published in German in 1970, there is a very close relationship between the Paleo-Byzantine notation and the Latin neumes. Although the study aroused a great deal of dispute, more recent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631615590
• ISBN13: 9783631615591
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 405 Pages