Hornby, Emma: Gregorian & Old Roman Eighth-Mode Tracts (Ashgate Books) Hardback

Contents

Contents: Introduction; The primary evidence; Analysis of the eighth-mode tracts; Methods of transmission of the early chant tradition; The medieval understanding of the eighth-mode tracts I: characteristics of the notated sources and theoretical writing; The medieval understanding of the eighth-mode tracts II: tract composition in the 10th and 11th centuries; Questions of chronology; Conclusions; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.