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Blanche Gangwere.
Music History from the Late Roman through the Gothic Periods, 313-1425: A Documented Chronology.
Published Westport: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Series: Music Reference Collection, no. 6.
ISBN 0313247641.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 164x239x25mm.
Page count: xiii,247pp inc. 12 monochrome maps.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has the usual mild scuffs etc. on its boards, a bit of wear on the edges and corners, nothing too severe; otherwise doesn’t look heavily used, text appears to be free of marking.


This item £25.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price $95.00/£54.95]
Weight without packaging: 599g.

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The main part of the book documents musical development in the period 313-1425. Appendices cover: Greek music; Beothius; Neumes; Plainsong notation; Ecclesiastical modes; System of hexachords & solmization; Daseia notation; Square notaton; Modal notation; Page arrangements; Franconian notation; French mensural notation; Italian mensural notation; Supplemental material.


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