Guy of Saint-Denis, Tractatus de tonis
Constant J. Mews is Director of the Centre for Religious Studies, Monash University in Victoria, Australia. Carol J. Williams, John N. Crossley, and Catherine Jeffreys, all of Monash University, are specialists in medieval and Renaissance music, mathematics and logic, and the music of Hildegard of Bingen respectively.
Paperback (Published)
(April 2017)
ISBN: 9781580442541
6.14 x 9.21 inches
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(April 2017)
ISBN: 9781580442992
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The Tractatus de tonis of Guy of Saint-Denis (written ca. 1300-10) differs from other treatises on plainchant in the depth of its analysis of the various tones into which chant was traditionally classified.
The Tractatus de tonis of Guy of Saint-Denis (written ca. 1300-10) differs from other treatises on plainchant in the depth of its analysis of the various tones into which chant was traditionally classified. Guy’s treatise presents itself as a synthetic overview of both the theory and practice of plainchant in a way that combines the practical reflection of Guido of Arezzo with ideas of more Aristoteleian inspired theorists such as Johannes de Grocheio and Peter of Auvergne.
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Outline of the Tractatus de tonis
Tractatus de tonis: Text and Translation
Appendices
I. Deleted material
II. Explanatory material
Works Cited
Manuscript sources
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Lexicon
Glossary
Onomastic Index
- Edited and translated by Constant J. Mews
- Edited and translated by Carol J. Williams
- Edited and translated by John N. Crossley
- Edited and translated by Catherine Jeffreys
"This important publication increases the accessibility of a less-well-known medieval treatise on music theory devoted to the Gregorian chant repertoire for Mass and Office. [...] This welcome new edition and English translation of the Tractatus by a team of Australian scholars introduces the treatise by identifying the sources of Guy's teaching, sketching the history of his abbey in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, and exploring the treatise's relationship to the Cistercian and Dominican chant traditions." Joseph Dyer, The Medieval Review 18.03.18
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