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Perhaps we should just get rid of Pesudo-Odo, as if he is a person, & refer to the C10th treatise <i>Dialogus de Musica.
</i>In fact the C9th/early C10th <i>Musica Enchiriadis </i>uses the letters A-G as a repeating sequence; not, however, for the purpose of laying out a mode in a scalar way, but as pitch indicators in a diastemmatic-syllabic diagram to show organum at the octave,
in a way that the <i>Musica Enchiriadis'</i> tetrachordal notation never could have.<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 20 May 2014 08:30<br>
<b>To:</b> art samplaski; smt-talk@lists.societymusictheory.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Smt-talk] Seven-letter scale notation (was re: scale degrees)<br>
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<div><font face="Calibri">My mistake, I meant <i>c</i>1000. Ps Odo predated Guido by about a generation, 25 years.<br>
Nicolas<br>
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Nicolas Meeùs<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Le 19/05/2014 18:35, art samplaski a écrit :<br>
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<div dir="ltr">A couple of digests ago, Nicolas Mee<span style="font-family:'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size:11pt"><font face="Times New Roman">ú</font></span>s wrote:<br>
> --[Pseudo] Odo, /c/1100, apparently was the first medieval author to suggest the
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> notation with seven letters, cycling at the octave, which is still in <br>
> use today, and which for a long time was in use in parallel with the <br>
> tetrachordal/hexachordal naming of the degrees.<br>
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A question, and a possible correction.<br>
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Has the dating on "Odo" been revised? I had always thought he predated<br>
Guido of Arezzo by a few years. (The online NGD2 entry on modal theory<br>
still lists him as such, as of 10 min. ago...:)<br>
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Guido definitely uses the seven-letter notation system in both the _Regule<br>
rithmice_ and the _Micrologus_, using an analogy to the 7 days of the week<br>
that I believe is also used by Ps-Odo--no access just at the moment to check.<br>
No idea if that analogy is original with Ps-Odo or was some sort of common<br>
coinage--if anyone has info one way or another on that I'd love to hear it.:)<br>
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Art Samplaski<br>
Ithaca, NY <br>
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