Gendering the semitone, sexing the leading tone: fourteenth-century music theory and the directed progression
<p>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 i...
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University of California Press
2006
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