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Gendering the semitone, sexing the leading tone: fourteenth-century music theory and the directed progression
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Johannes, the eleventh-century glossator of Guido of Arezzo, is the earliest of several theorists who indirectly associate the semitone with cross-dressing, using a Vergilian citation about Phrygian men. Taking this as a starting point, this paper explores the gendered nature of sub-tonal intervals. The femininity of the semitone is initially a theoretical commonplace drawn from Greek antiquity, but in the context of medieval antifeminism on the one hand and the new placement and tuning of...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- University of California Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Music Theory Spectrum Journal website
- Volume:
- 28
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 1-21
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1533-8339
- ISSN:
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0195-6167
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- English
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- ora:7938
- Deposit date:
- 2014-02-03
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- The Society for Music Theory
- Copyright date:
- 2006
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