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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Fiona McAlpine writes:<BR>
> Perhaps we should just get rid of Pesudo-Odo, as if he is a person,<BR>
> & refer to the C10th treatise Dialogus de Musica.<BR>
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Well, I think that's going just a wee bit extreme, eh? Not only are there<BR>
waaay too many treatises only called "De musica" floating around down the<BR>
centuries, but presumably SOME human wrote this particular one--unless<BR>
one wants to suggest, e.g., the cat Pangur Ban from that Old Irish poem or<BR>
one of his descendants did. (A _very_ intriguing hypothesis, to be sure, but<BR>
difficult to defend on paleography grounds if nothing else.:) Considering<BR>
there are Pseudo-Aristotle, Pseudo-Plutarch, and I can't remember how<BR>
many other Pseudos running around music history, it seems to me perfectly<BR>
fine and simple (and needing zero new rewriting of history texts:) to just<BR>
keep calling the (presumed) guy "Pseudo-Odo." (Else, we'd have to start<BR>
saying, "the author formerly known as 'Pseudo-Odo, nee Odo of Cluny.'":)<BR>
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(Now, the _Alia musica_ is a completely different herd of cats. How many<BR>
people--I think "contributors" is a much more appropriate term than "authors"<BR>
here--helped compile it? To date I've seen suggested 3 (Chailley), 4 (Atkinson),<BR>
and 5 (Muehlmann)...)<BR>
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And thank you so very much for jogging my neuron about the _Musica Enchiriadis_'<BR>
use of letter notation re the diapason!<BR>
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Art Samplaski<BR>
Ithaca, NY<BR><BR> </div></body>
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