The Phenomenon of Harmonic Vertical in the High Middle Ages

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Saida Z. Iskhakova

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of the European musical thinking in the 11th-13th centuries. The author makes an attempt to prove that harmony of the period is viewed by the composers and theorists vertically and to show that musical thinking changes every 300 years during the last ten centuries. In support of these ideas the author uses the information from medieval manuscripts bearing witness one way or another of harmonic processes in the texture which was mainly considered to be the polyphony of independent lines before. In the same way the author interprets the system of solmization as playing the same role as “modal tuning” (B. Yavorsky) in classical tonality.

Keywords: music theory, medieval polyphony, medieval harmony, solmization

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How to Cite
Iskhakova, S. Z. (2010). The Phenomenon of Harmonic Vertical in the High Middle Ages. Music Scholarship / Problemy Muzykal’noj Nauki, (2), 27–31. Retrieved from https://musicscholar.ru/index.php/PMN/article/view/546
Section
Musical Language in its Historic Evolution
Author Biography

Saida Z. Iskhakova, Ufa State Academy of Arts named after Z. Ismagilov

Сandidate of Arts, Docent of the Department of Composition