TY - BOOK ID - 86076757 TI - The Affinities and Medieval Transposition PY - 1987 SN - 0253055733 PB - Indiana University Press DB - UniCat KW - Transposition (Music) KW - Musical intervals and scales. KW - Music theory. KW - Music theory KW - History KW - Intervals (Music) KW - Modes, Musical KW - Music KW - Musical modes KW - Musical scales and intervals KW - Scales (Music) KW - Musical temperament KW - Transposing (Music) KW - Musical pitch KW - Musical theory KW - Theory of music KW - Modes KW - Theory KW - History of music UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86076757 AB - The concept of affinities, or pitch relationships, was fundamental to modal theory in the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance. For the first time, Delores Pesce brings together theoretical perspectives on this subject from the end of the ninth century to the middle of the sixteenth, spanning the ideas of Hucbald through Guido of Arezzo, Jacques de Liège, Marchetto of Padua, Tinctoris, and Aaron to those of Glareanus. Pesce provides a comprehensive survey of problematic chants and of medieval solutions for them. She also traces the arguments that led to the rejection of the affinities and the acceptance of transposition in the modern sense. Scholars will find this volume invaluable for addressing issues related to modal classification and notational practices, in both chant and polyphony. ER -