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Originally published in 1966, the Reeseschrift remains one of the most significant collections of musicological writings ever assembled. Its fifty-six essays, written by some of the greatest scholars of our time, range chronologically from antiquity to the 17thcentury and geographically from Byzantium to the British Isles. They deal with questions of history, style, form, texture, notation, and performance practice.
An excerpt from the Preface of the Second Edition: THE specialty of the Treatise is twofold: Firstly, the standard laws of the ancient, strict, diatonic, artificial, or contrapuntal style are collected and systematically codified with such clearness and consistency as I have not found in earlier works, and they are distinguished entirely from those of the modern, free, chromatic, natural, or harmonic style; Secondly, though the natural chord of the dominant seventh had been more or less freely used for two, or, as lately proved, three and a half centuries prior to the appearance of this book, and though general views had grown into acceptance as to its constitution and treatment, no systemat...
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A comprehensive account of early papermaking in America
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