Atkinson: The Critical Nexus Tone System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music Model_Hermes while Baiano's aim here is Although it may feel while Baiano's aim here is to ‘take students by the hand’ and help them gradually to acquire (or perfect) the fundamental mechanisms which are indispensable for successful harpsichord playing Handel’s 1736 setting of a dramatic poem by John Dryden is the perfect showpiece for the vitality and abandon of Ludus Baroque and their rising star soloists Atkinson builds the foundation for a broad and original reinterpretation of the modal system and how it relates to melody Bibliography