[Smt-talk] Seven-letter scale notation (was re: scale degrees)

[Nicolas Meeùs]

My mistake, I meant /c/1000. Ps Odo predated Guido by about a 
generation, 25 years.
Nicolas

Nicolas Meeùs
Professeur émérite
Université Paris-Sorbonne



Le 19/05/2014 18:35, art samplaski a écrit :
> A couple of digests ago, Nicolas Meeús wrote:
> > --[Pseudo] Odo, /c/1100, apparently was the first medieval author to 
> suggest the
> > notation with seven letters, cycling at the octave, which is still in
> > use today, and which for a long time was in use in parallel with the
> > tetrachordal/hexachordal naming of the degrees.
>
> A question, and a possible correction.
>
> Has the dating on "Odo" been revised? I had always thought he predated
> Guido of Arezzo by a few years. (The online NGD2 entry on modal theory
> still lists him as such, as of 10 min. ago...:)
>
> Guido definitely uses the seven-letter notation system in both the _Regule
> rithmice_ and the _Micrologus_, using an analogy to the 7 days of the week
> that I believe is also used by Ps-Odo--no access just at the moment to 
> check.
> No idea if that analogy is original with Ps-Odo or was some sort of common
> coinage--if anyone has info one way or another on that I'd love to 
> hear it.:)
>
> Art Samplaski
> Ithaca, NY
>
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