Reading Renaissance Music Theory

Contents

• List of illustrations; Foreward Ian Bent; Preface;
• Part I . Beginnings:
• 1. Prologue: Exempli gratia ...;
• 2. Music theory incunabula: printed books, printed music;
• Part II . 1520-1540: Pietro Aron and Seybald Heyden:
• 3. Pietro Aron and Petrucci's prints;
• 4. Music anthologies, theory treatises, and the Reformation: Nuremberg in the 1530s and 1540s;
• Part III . The Polyphony of Heinrich Glarean's Dodecachordon (1547):
• 5. Exempla, commonplace books, and writing theory;
• 6. The polyphony of the Dodecachordon;
• Part IV . Gioseffo Zarlino's Le Istitutioni Harmoniche (1558):
• 7. Composition and theory mediated by print culture;
• 8. 'On the modes': the citations of Le Istitutioni Harmoniche
• part IV ;
• Part V . Readings Past and Present:
• 9. Exempli gratia: a reception history of Magnus es tu Domine/Tu pauperum refugium;
• 10. Epilogue: reading theorists reading (music); Bibliography; Index.