From: Notes | Date: December 1, 1993| Author: Nowacki, Edward | COPYRIGHT 1993 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Joseph A. Diamond's A Tradition of Three Tropes is not only a study of three Agnus Dei tropes, but also a general essay on source criticism. It is divided into six loosely connected chapters. The first is devoted to a consideration of the work of Leo Treitler, whom Diamond calls a (tacit) rigorous, nativist Chomskian (p. viii). This is a misleading generalization, for Treitler's work is neither formal, nor explicit, nor deductive. It is informal, assumes unspecified shared understa...