Brief Treatise on Ratios That Pertain to Music and a Little Treatise on the Method of Dividing the Monochord |
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| Editor:
| Herlinger, Jan |
| Translator:
| Herlinger, Jan |
| Author:
| Prosdocimo De'Beldomandi, Prosdocimo |
| Series title: | Greek and Latin Music Theory Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8032-3677-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1987 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $60.00 |
Book Description:
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The Brief Treatise on Ratios That Pertain to Music (1409) is a concise summary of the traditional doctrine of ratios. In A Little Treatise on the Method of Dividing the Monochord (1413) Prosdocimo established, for the first time in Italy, a completenbsp;Pythagorean monochord, dividing the octave into seven natural notes, five flats, and five sharps not enharmonically equivalent to the flats.
The Brief Treatise on Ratios That Pertain to Music (1409) is a concise summary of the traditional doctrine of ratios. In A Little Treatise on the Method of Dividing the Monochord (1413) Prosdocimo established, for the first time in Italy, a completenbsp;Pythagorean monochord, dividing the octave into seven natural notes, five flats, and five sharps not enharmonically equivalent to the flats.