Abstract
system of rhythmic modes, attributed to the Notre Dame composers, Leonin and Perotin, is a moment of inestimable importance in the development of Western music, for the establishment of a rational system of rhythm with its concomitant notation revealed new possibilities of musical growth. The possibilities were soon realized, and the 13th century saw the gradual dissolution of the modal system and its replacement by the mensural system of Franco of Cologne. To keep pace with these manifold activities the theorists of music were forced to turn their attention from
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