Berger, Anna Maria Busse - Mensuration and Proportion Signs

Mensuration and Proportion Signs represents the first attempt to see the origin of musical mensuration and proportion signs in the context of other measuring systems of the fourteenth century.

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CONTENTS

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Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Representation and Interpretation of Mensuration Signs
2. The Origins of the Mensural System and Mensuration Signs
3. The Relationship between Perfect and Imperfect Time
4. The Relationship between Major and Minor Prolation
5. Diminution by Stroke and by Mode Signs
6. Proportion Signs
Conclusion
Appendix: Index of Signs
Bibliography
Index of Compositions
General Index