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11 - Music Theory

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2018

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Thomas Christensen
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Mark Everist  and
Thomas Forrest Kelly
Mark Everist
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University of Southampton
Thomas Forrest Kelly
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Harvard University, Massachusetts
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The Cambridge History of Medieval Music , pp. 357 - 381
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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