Brief Treatise on Ratios That Pertain to Music and Little Treatise on the Method of Dividing the Monochord (Greek & Latin Music Theory) (English and Latin Edition) - Hardcover

Beldomandi, Prosdocimo De

 
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Synopsis

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 complete Pythagorean monochord, dividing the octave into seven natural notes, five flats, and five sharps not enharmonically equivalent to the flats.

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Text: English, Latin

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