Beginnings and Endings: Defining the Mode in a Medieval Chant
Fiona McAlpine
The creation and transmission of the earliest Gregorian chant did not happen within framework eight modes. written sources (ninth century) do assign modes to chants. Notated antiphonaries from end tenth century begin contain marginal indications mode. question is why adopted octoechos: it about accepted a sense finality in chant, resting-place, which withheld. It significant both that alone Latin repertories came under influence octoechos, body contains much more differentiation final by leap than other repertories. If we were abandon rigorous definition modality instead look at what modal “system” might have done for Carolingians, provided signpost cadential degree.
Studia musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae