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Review: Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe: The Invention of Musical Notation. Cambridge Studies i...

Review: Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe: The Invention of Musical Notation. Cambridge Studies i...

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Review: Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe: The Invention of Musical Notation. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, 15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxiv + 404 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-42140-9

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Review: Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe: The Invention of Musical Notation. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, 15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxiv + 404 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-42140-9

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

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Early music history, 2019, Vol.38, p.317-321

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English

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ISBN 978-1-108-42140-9 Leo Treitler concluded his seminal study ‘Reading and Singing: On the Genesis of Occidental Music Writing’, published first in these pages thirty-five years ago, with the obiter dicta that understanding the origin of music writing ‘is a question of semiotics, not alone of paleography’.1 While not denying that music writing is...

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Review: Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe: The Invention of Musical Notation. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, 15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxiv + 404 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-42140-9

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0261-1279

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1474-0559

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10.1017/S026112791900007X

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