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Susan Rankin, Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe: The Invention of Musical Notation. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, 15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxiv + 404 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-42140-9

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Susan Rankin, Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe: The Invention of Musical Notation. Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, 15. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xxiv + 404 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-42140-9

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2019

John J. Contreni*
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Purdue University (emeritus)

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1 Early Music History, 4 (1984), pp. 135–208, at p. 208. When he later published a revised version of this essay, he reinforced the final sentence by adding: ‘and it cannot conceivably be assuaged with a single answer’. See chapter 14 in his With Voice and Pen: Coming to Know Medieval Song and How It was Made (Oxford, 2003), pp. 365–428, at p. 427.

2 Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen), 3 vols. (Wiesbaden, 1998–2014).

3 Die Admonitio generalis Karls des Grossen, ed. H. Mordek, K. Zechiel-Eckes, and M. Glatthaar, Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Fontes Germanici Antiqui in usum scholarum separatim editi, 16 (Hannover, 2012), pp. 222–4 (cap. 70).