Musical Theory in the Renaissance

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Part I Terms and Topics: Resfacta and Cantare Super Librum, Margaret Bent
• On compositional process in the 15th century, Bonnie J. Blackburn
• On diminution and proportion in 15th-century music theory, Ruth I. DeFord
• Is mode real? Pietro Aron, the octenary system, and polyphony, Harold Powers
• Renaissance modal theory: theoretical, compositional, and editorial perspectives, Cristle Collins Judd. Part II Influences and Authorities: Renaissance music theory as literature: on reading the Proportionale Musices of Iohannes Tinctoris, Ronald Woodley
• Aristoxenus redeemed in the Renaissance, Claude V. Palisca
• Modes and planetary song: the musical alliance of ethics and cosmology, Gary Tomlinson
• Defending the Dodecachordon: ideological currents in Glarean's modal theory, Sarah Fuller
• Heinrich Glarean reading and editing Boethius, Inga Mai Groote. Part III Life and Works of Individual Theorists: The tradition and science: the Istitutioni harmoniche of Gioseffo Zarlino, Paolo da Col
• Introduction, Maria R. Maniates. Part IV National Traditions and Dissemination: Lute tablature instructions in Italy: a survey of the regole from 1507 to 1759, Dinko Fabris
• Deutsche Musiktheorie im 16.Jahrundert: Geistes- und institutionsgeschichtliche Grundlagen, Klaus Wolfgang NiemAller
• You can tell a book by its cover: reflections on format in English music 'theory', Jessie Ann Owens
• La diffusion de textes theoriques franAais A la renaissance, Philippe Vendrix
• Music and music theory in the universities of Central Europe during the 15th century, Tom R. Ward
• The dissemination and use of European music books in early modern Asia, David R.M. Irving
• Name index.