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... and musical writings have barely figured in the study of the Renaissance dialogue, yet these works offer specific insights about the nature of the genre. In addition to Morley's treatise, works discussed in detail include Anton Francesco Doni's Dialogo della musica (1544), Gioseffo Zarlino's Dimostrationi...

...Sarah Fuller Hucbald of St. Amand's treatise Musica took shape in the late Carolingian era in a time of intense and independent music-theoretical activity. Hucbald has been recognized as a pioneer who brought elements from Greek music theory to bear upon plainsong, but his view of mode has been...

...Robert O. Gjerdingen Jean-Jacques Rousseau, eighteenth-century French author and philosopher, was first a musician. As a youth he had been unable to find a qualified music master and hence lacked the training required to excel in his chosen field. He did read carefully the harmony treatise of Jean...

...Jared C. Hartt The extant fourteenth-century contrapunctus manuals are concerned almost exclusively with counterpoint in two parts, but one treatise, “Quicumque voluerit duos contrapuncti,” sheds light on three-voice composition and lays the groundwork for a refined classification of sonority types...

... and applying the root concept in their treatises. The article then addresses the origin of the term root in English-language theory, noting that the term first emerged only in 1806, far later than its modern-day ubiquity would suggest. This late emergence is explained as a side effect of the idiosyncratic...

... University Press. Damschroder, David A. and David Russell Williams. 1991 . Music Theory from Zarlino to Schenker: A Bibliography and Guide . Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon. Fuller, Sarah. 1985 . “A Phantom Treatise of the 14th Century? The Ars nova.” Journal of Musicology 4/1 : 23 -50. Giger...

... . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Rameau Jean-Philippe . 1971 . Treatise on Harmony . Translated by Gossett Philip . New York : Dover Publications . Saint Lambert Monsieur de . [1707] 1991 . A New Treatise on Accompaniment . Translated by Powell John S...

... Polyphony: A Reappraisal.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 24/2 : 169 -92. ____. 1985-86 . “A Phantom Treatise of the Fourteenth Century? The Ars Nova.” Journal of Musicology 4/1 : 23 -50. ____. 1986 . “On Sonority in Fourteenth-Century Polyphony: Some Preliminary Reflections...

... of writing musical notes, which he justified in accordance with contemporary scholastic ideas about the organization of time. Some years after des Murs completed his work, a critic named Jacobus wrote the Speculum musicae, the most substantial medieval treatise about music. Attacking des Murs, Jacobus...

... of Hollandrinus come to be recognized, as musicologists began to associate a number of anony- mous treatises with one another through the recognition of common topics, terminology, locutions, and mnemonics. And these texts—many of them already long known...

... (Polignac’s octa- tonic treatise: part II). On the one hand, it is our neat separating out of his- tory, composition, theory, and analysis that creates false compartmentaliza- tion and “gaps” in understanding; it also perpetuates an erroneous notion...

... hierarchy, and ecclesiastical authority in fait plus de progrès, et auxquelles on ne doit pas manquer twelfth-century Europe” (Andersen-Wyman 2007, pref- sous peine d’être jugé indigne.” ace, n.p 5 Some have argued that Capellanus’s treatise is not a 6 Donaldson 1965, Robertson 1968, Hult...

... to no attention elsewhere. (Damschroder supplies a brief biographical sketch for each author cited, along with bibliographic information for their treatise[s], in the section “Biographies of Music Theorists” [244–86]. The separation of this primary bibliographic material...

.... Paris, 4 vols. Volume III contains: Ars Contrapuncti secundum Johannem de Muris (this includes the treatise Cum notum sit), Ars discantus secundum Johannem de Muris, and Philippi de Vitriaco Liber Musicalium. Guillaume de Machaut. 1926 –54. Musikalische Werke . Ed. Friedrich Ludwig. Leipzig...

..., starts his instructions for creating a three- or four-voice motet with “first take a tenor from some antiphon or responsory . . . and you will arrange and color -ize it according to what is explained below about perfect and imperfect modus.” 2 Writing about color in his treatise Ars (ca. 1350...

.... “ Hidden Polyphony: A Reappraisal.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 24/2: 169–92. [1972 winner of the Alfred Einstein Prize of the American Musicological Society.] 1977. “ An Anonymous Treatise dictus de Sancto Martiale: A New Source for Cistercian Music...

... that there is almost nothing in the Musica practica of Spataro's teacher Ramos to suggest a new concept of harmony. In his treatment of counterpoint ( contrapunctus ) in part 2 of his treatise, Ramos advises that “when the tenor makes leaps and jagged motions, the added voice should unite its notes”—that is, move...

... : Oxford University Press . Hermelink Siegfried . 1960 . Dispositiones modorum: Die Tonarten in der Musik Palestrinas und seiner Zeitgenossen . Tutzing : Hans Schneider . Holder William . 1731 . A Treatise on the Natural Grounds, and Principles of Harmony . London...

..., Nicole. 1970 . Le livre de politiques d'Aristotle . Ed. Albert Douglas Menut. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series, vol. 60 , part 6. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. Page, Christopher. 1992 . “A Treatise on Musicians from?c.1400: The Tractatulus de...

..., tells a story of arduous day-long sessions at the former Prussian state library in Berlin, where, in the hunt for rare music treatises, he had to leaf through hundreds of pages of manuscripts containing what appeared to be useless exercises in figured...