Abstract
Ce texte vise à mettre en lumière l’existence, dans la théorie modale médiévale latine, de deux catégories hiérarchiques distinctes : les « qualités systémiques », propres aux degrés du système musical et dérivant exclusivement de la position de ceux-ci dans l’échelle diatonique ; et les « fonctions modales » que ces mêmes degrés exercent dans un mode particulier. Les premières ont été décrites, notam-ment par Guido d’Arezzo et Hermannus Contractus, sous le nom de modi vocum (« modes des notes »), tandis que les secondes se manifestent en particulier dans la doctrine de la finale modale, qui apparaît notamment chez Hucbald de Saint-Amand et ses contemporains. Le lien entre les modes des notes et les finales est complexe.
This paper discusses the existence, in Latin medieval theory, of two distinct hierar-chical categories, that of “systemic qualities”, belonging to the degrees of the musical system and deriving exclusively from their position in the diatonic scale and that of the “modal functions” that the same degrees may exert in a particular mode. The first were described, among others by Guido of Arezzo and by Herman-nus Contractus, under the name of modi vocum (“Mode of the Degrees”), while the second are manifest mainly in the doctrine of the modal final, as discussed among others by Hucbald of Saint-Amand and his contemporaries. The relation between the modes of the degrees and the finals is complex.
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