Mensuration and Proportion Signs: Origins and Evolution

296 Pages·1993·11.585 MB·English

by  Anna Martha Berger

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OXFORD MONOGRAPHS ON MUSIC
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Mensuration and Proportion Signs

Mensuration and Proportion
Signs
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Origins and Evolution
Anna Maria Busse Berger
CLARENDON PRESS • OXFORD
1993
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Berger, Anna Maria Busse.
Mensuration and proportion signs : origins and evolution
(Oxford monographs on music)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Measured music. 2. Musical notation—500-1400.
3. Music—Theory—500-1400. I. Title. II. Series.
ML174.B5 1993 780'.148—dc20 92-12195
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