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Tag: tonal system

Posted on February 6, 2016July 3, 2017

pentatonic scales and lyre tunings

This is a detail from one of the most precious books in Glasgow University Library - the Hunterian Psalter (MS U.3.2, fol. 21v), produced in southern England(more…)

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