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Unità minime in Guido d'Arezzo e nei grammatici latini

2009

Guido d’Arezzo in the Micrologus points out an ascending scale of the units that form the songs, drawing a parallel between this one and the ascending scale of the units that form the metres according to the Latin grammarians. The units of the metres are: litterae, syllabae, partes, pedes, versus; the units of the songs are: soni, syllabae, neumae/partes, distinctiones. There are problems as regards the interpretation of the song units that are in the middle, especially neumae/partes and syllabae. From the analysis of Guido’s text and from the comparison with the Latin grammarians’ works, it turns out that the neumae/partes, called in a clearer manner partes cantilenae, correspond to the pa…