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d. 1995

Thomas Binkley, musicologist and instumentalist in the field of early music. Director of the Studio der Frühen Musik, also known as the Early Music Quartet.

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Music historians have learned that the language and approach of musical theory in the Middle Ages were borrowed directly from medieval grammar and rhetoric.

Companion to Medieval & Renaissance Music (1997)

The rhetorical process functioned in many areas other than speech: Curtius wrote about 'rhetorical landscape representations' while Serpieris speaks of 'la retorica al teatro' (the rhetorical use of theatrical space), and music historians have learned that the language and approach of musical theory in the Middle Ages were borrowed directly from medieval grammar and rhetoric.

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