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largely unconscious result of certain accidents that may
occur in unison monophonic singing; it is certainly not
surprising that during the later Middle Ages polyphony
should be so deeply rooted in what are essentially
monophonic attitudes that people of the modern world
find it, at first at least, curiously difficult of approach. We
know more or less what we expect from music conceived
in “parts”, and the mediaeval composer does not gratify
our expectations. But before we dismiss him as ‘primitive’
or ‘tentative’ we ought to be sure that we understand
what he thought he was trying to do. He was not really
trying to break with the implications of the monophonic
music on which he had been nurtured and which, as we
have seen, symbolized the philosophy inherent in his
world; he was perhaps trying to extend that music’s
resources, and in so doing he quite unwittingly introduced