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AARON, Pietro, c.1490-1545

Compendiolo di molti dubbi, segreti et sentenze intorno al canto fermo, et figurato.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/11. Bologna, 1970. 16 x 22 cm, 75 pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1545 edition. Laid paper. Hardbound. [item no.2422]


Compendiolo di molti dubbi, segreti et sentenze intorno al canto fermo, et figurato. A Facsimile of the Milan, ca.1545 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/66. New York, 1974. 15 x 23 cm, 74 pp. Line-cut of the Milan, c.1545 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2589]


Libri tres de institutione harmonica. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/8. Bologna, 1970. 16 x 22 cm, x, 122 pp. Line-cut of the Bologna, 1516 edition. Introduction in It by Giuseppe Vecchi. Laid paper. Hardbound. $53 [item no.2423]


Libri tres de institutione harmonica. A Facsimile of the Bologna, [1516] Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/67. New York, 1976. 16 x 24 cm, 128 pp. Line-cut of the Bologna, [1516] edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2588]


Lucidario in musica.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/12. Bologna, 1969. 16 x 24 cm, 108 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1545 edition. Cloth. $44 [item no.2424]


Lucidario in musica. A Facsimile of the Venice, 1545 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/68. New York, 1978. 16 x 24 cm, 106 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1545 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2599]


Thoscanello de la musica. A Facsimile of the Venice 1523 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/69. New York, 1969. 22 x 34 cm, 106 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1523 edition. This general manual, dealing with mensural notation, intervals, etc., also contains the first recommendation from a theorist that the parts of a polyphonic composition be conceived simultaneously. Aaron also advocates that the composer ought to enter all the desired accidentals in the music and to use uniform signatures. Laid paper, with handsome binding in cloth. [item no.2600]


Trattato della natura et cognitione di tutti gli tuoni di canto figurato non da altrui piu scritti.

Utrecht, 1966. 22 x 29 cm, iii, 45 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1525 edition. With an introduction by Wilem Elders. Quarter leather. $75 [item no.2583]


Trattato della natura et cognitione di tutti gli tuoni di canto figurato non da altrui piu scritti. A Facsimile of the Venice, 1525 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/129. New York, 1979. 22 x 34 cm, 45 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1525 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2595]


ABBATE, Carlo, 16-17th c.

Regulae contrapuncti excerptae ex operibus Zerlini et aliorum ad breviorem tyronum instructionem accommodate per Fr. Carolus Abbate.

Leipzig, 1977. 11 x 17 cm, 108 pp. Line-cut of the St. Oslowan, 1629 edition. Linen. $26 [item no.2700]


AGAZZARI, Agostino, 1578-1640

Del sonare sopra’l basso con tutti li stromenti e dell’uso loro nel conserto.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/37. Bologna, 1985. 18 x 25 cm, 12 pp. Line-cut of the Siena, 1607 edition. One of first treatises to adopt figured bass. Deals with chordal and single-line improvisation from a basso continuo and makes an important distinction between “fundamental” and “ornamental” instrumental classes. Wrappers. [item no.2415]


AGRICOLA, Martin, 1486-1556

Musica figuralis deudsch (1532). Im Anhang: Musica instrumentalis deudsch (1529); Musica choralis deudsch (1533); Rudimenta musices (1539). [Bayerische Staatsbibl., Munich & Bibliothek des Alten Gymnasiums, Flenburg].

Hildesheim, 1985. 10 x 16 cm, 412 pp. Line-cut of 4 of Agricola’s most famous treatises written in German. Musica instrumentalis was the second of its type (following Virdung’s Musica getuscht, 1511). Rich with woodcut illustrations and examples in Gothic and German lute tablature. Linen. $89 [item no.2531]


Rudimenta musices. A Facsimile of the 1539 Wittenberg Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/34. New York, 1966. 12 x 18 cm, 61 pp. Line-cut of the Wittenberg, 1539 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2610]


Von der Lauten aus Martin Agricola’s Musica Intrumentalis Deutsch 1529. Teil-Faksimile nach dem Exemplar im Besitz der Stadt Leipzig Städtische Bibliotheken Musikbibliothek (Signatur I 8˚ 191).

Lübeck, 2003. 4˚. 19 pp. Line-cut of 35 lute-related pages of Agricola’s “Musica Instumentalis Deutsch, 1529”. Explains the German tablature system, how to tune a lute, how to choose proper strings and much more. Wrappers. $14 [item no.8187]


AGUILAR, Gaspar de, 16th c.

Arte de principios de canto llano.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 11. Madrid, 1977. 15 x 20 cm, 32 pp. Line-cut of the c.1530-37 edition, based on the sole surviving exemplar in the Biblioteca Colombina, Seville. Wrappers. $20 [item no.2391]


ALSTED, Johann Heinrich, 1588-1638

Templum musicum.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/35. New York, 1967. Line-cut of the London, 1664 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2639]


AMMERBACH, Nikolaus, c.1530-1597

Orgel- oder Instrument Tabulatur. Leipzig, Jakob Berwalds Erben 1571. RISM 1571(17). [Musikbibliothek, Leipzig].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 50. Stuttgart, 2005. Oblong, 19 x 16 cm, 226 pp. Line-cut of the Leipzig, 1571 edition. One of the great milestones of organ tablature (considered the first printed German organ music), where pitches are expressed in letter notation with rhythmic signs above them. Amerbach arranged the contents of this book into five progressively more difficult categories, ranging from pieces with little or no coloration, to highly decorated pieces. “Instrument” as used in the title, includes “positive, regal, virginal, clavichord, clavicembalo, harpsichord and the like”. Most of the pieces in the collection are from vocal originals. The music section is preceded by instructions on playing the organ. Hardbound, with decorative paper boards. $63 [item no.8645]


ANGLERIA, Camillo, b.?-1630

Regola del contraponto e della musical compositione. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/59. Bologna, 1983. 16 x 22 cm, 132 pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1622 edition. Cloth. [item no.2420]


ARBEAU, Thoinot, 1520-1595

Orchésographie, et traité en forme de dialogue, par lequel toutes personnes peuvent facilement apprendre et pratiquer l’honnêste exercise des dances / [Albert Czerwiski:] Die Tänze des 16. Jahrhunderts und die alte französische Tanzschule vor Einführung des Menuett. Nach Jean Tabourots Orchésographie.

Hildesheim, 2/ 1989. 15 x 21 cm, 210 & 140 pp. Line-cut of the Langres, [1588] edition and the Danzig, 1878 edition. Linen. [item no.2530]


ARTUSI, Giovanni Maria, c.1540-1613

L’arte del contraponto. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/43. Bologna, 1980. 22 x 31 cm, 50 pp. Line-cut of the Giacomo Vincenzi and Ricciardo Amadino edition, Venice, 1586. Laid paper. Cloth. [item no.2427]


L’arte del contrpunto.

Hildesheim, 1969. 8º, xii, 80 pp. Line cut. Linen. $60 [item no.2529]


L’artusi overo Delle imperfettioni della moderna musica.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/36. Bologna, 2/ 2000. 4º, viii, 158, 120, 16 pp. Line-cut of all three editions of this famous theoretical polemic: Venice, 1600; Venice, 1603 (Seconda parte dell’artusi); Venice, 1608 (Discorso secono musicale di Antonio Braccino. Introduction in It by Giuseppe Vecchi. Wrappers. $102 [item no.2428]


BANCHIERI, Adriano, 1568-1634

Cantorino utile a novizzi e chierici principianti del canto fermo alla romana.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/19. Bologna, 1980. 13 x 17 cm, 103 pp. Line-cut of the Bologna, 1622 edition. 8 pages have been reproduced in 2 colors. Cloth. [item no.2430]


Conclusioni del suono dell’organo. A Facsimile of the Bologna, 1609 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/101. New York, 1975. 17 x 25 cm, 72 pp. Line-cut of the Bologna, 1609 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. $50 [item no.1776]


Discorso della lingua bolognese.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, V/12. Bologna, 1969. 15 x 22 cm, viii, 224 pp. Line-cut of the Bologna, 1629 edition. Preface in It by Giuseppe Vecchi. Hardbound. $66 [item no.2432]


Lettere armoniche.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, V/21. Bologna, 1968. 17 x 22 cm, vi, 212 facs, vii pp. Line-cut of the Bologna, 1628-30 edition. Preface and index by Giuseppe Vecchi. Hardbound. $40 [item no.2433]


L’organo suonarino.

Bibliotheca Organologica, 27. Buren, 1969. 4º, x, 203 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1605, 1611 & 1638 editions. Cloth. $79 [item no.2134]


BASSANO, Giovanni, c.1550-d.?

Ricercate, passaggi et cadentie per potersi essercitar nel diminuir terminatamente con ogni sorte d’istrumento: & anco diverti passaggi per la semplice voce. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Münster, c.1995. 4º, i, 23 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1585 edition. Bassano, a cornetto player who was a member of the ensemble at St. Mark’s in Venice, wrote two important treatises. This is the first one, which includes examples of quasi-improvised pieces for solo instrument. Ring binder. $26 [item no.7355]


BATHE, William, 1564-1614

A Briefe Introduction to the Skill of Song, c.1587.

London, 2008. 13 x 19 cm, 49 pp. Line-cut of the c.1587 revised edition of the now lost 1584 work considered to be the first musical text book to appear in the English language. Bathe abandons the Gamut in favor of his own seven-note sol-fa system. Wrappers. $29 [item no.9217]


BERINGER, Maternus, 16-17th c.

Musicae, das ist der freyen lieblichen Singkunst, erster & anderer Theyl samt beygefügtem nützlichen Exempelbüchlein auf dergleichen Schlag vorne keins ausgegangen nach welches richtiger Anweisung ein junger hierzu qualifizierter Anfänger aussrrechtem Grund gar leichtlich kann singen lernen.

Waiblingen, c.1991. 15 x 20 cm, i, 38 pp. Line-cut of the G.L. Fuhrmann edition, Nuremberg, 1610. Fascinating little tutor with numerous canonic (mensural) exercises for different intervals and rhythmic proportions. Coverboards in handsome decorative paper. $57 [item no.4664]


BERMUDO, Juan, c.1510-c.1565

El arte tripharia.

[Kassel], n.d. 17 x 24 cm, 80 pp. Line-cut of the Osuna 1550 edition. Wrappers. $40 [item no.2847]


BLOCKLAND DE MONTFORT, Corneille, 16th c.

Instruction méthodique et fort facile pour apprendre la musique practique / [J. Yssandon:] Traité de la musique pratique, divisé en deux parties.

Geneva, 2/ 1998. 16 x 23 cm, 82 pp. Line-cut of the Lyon & Paris, 1587 & 1582 editions. Two complementary treatises on 16th-c. music theory from the South of France. Hardbound. $61 [item no.3250]


BOCCHI, Francesco, 1548-1618

Discorso sopra la musica [non secondo l’arte di quella, ma secondo la ragione alla politica pertinente] (Firenze 1581).

Scriptores, Libri Fototypice Expressi, 4. Bologna, 1977. 12 x 17 cm, 37 pp. Line-cut of the Florence, 1581 edition. Elaborate essay on music from the standpoint of its merits in various situations. Wrappers. $16 [item no.4078]


BONAVENTURA DA BRESCIA, 15-16th c.

Breviloguium musicale (Regula musice plane) (1497). [Bibl. Palatina, Parma].

Monumenta Brixiensia, Fototypice Expressa, 2. Bologna, 1970. 16 x 22 cm, viii, 40 pp. Line-cut of the Brescia, 1497 incunabulum. Introduction in It by Vittorio Gibelli. Hardbound. $30 [item no.2650]


Regula musicae plane. A Facsimile of the [Brescia, September, 1497] Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/77. New York, 1975. 17 x 24 cm, 40 pp. Line-cut of the Brescia, 1497 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2630]


BONINI, Piermaria, 16th c.

Acutissime observationes nobilissime disciplinarum omnium musices (Firenze 1520).

Scriptores, Libri Fototypice Expressi, 3. Bologna, 1977. 17 x 25 cm, 34 pp. Line-cut of the Florence, 1520 edition. Wrappers. $19 [item no.4077]


BONIZZI, Vincenzo, b.?-1630

[Alcune opera, viola bastarda, strings] Alcune opere di diversi autori. Passaggiate principalmente per la viola bastarda, ma anco per ogni sorte di stromenti e di voci, Venezia 1626. [Printed source & Ms, Civico Museo Bibl. musicale, Bologna].

Archivum Musicum: Strumentalismo Italiano, 54. Florence, 1983. Oblong, 24 x 17 cm, xvii, 94 pp. Line-cut. Includes facsimile of contemporary ms copy transmitting passaggiate. Introduction in It by Elio Durante & Anna Martellotti. Wrappers in decorative paper. $31 [item no.1169]


BOTTRIGARI, Ercole, 1531-1612

Il melone et il melone secondo. [Bibl. Universitaria, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/29. Bologna, 1969. 17 x 25 cm, x, 104 pp. Line-cut of the Ferrara, 1602 edition. Preface in It by Giuseppe Vecchi. Hardbound. [item no.2985]


Il patricio, overo de’ tetracordi armonici. [Bibl. Universitaria, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/27. Bologna, 1969. 17 x 25 cm, viii, 47 pp. Line-cut of the Bologna, 1593 edition. Preface in It by Giuseppe Vecchi. Hardbound. $35 [item no.2986]


BOURGEOIS, Loys, c.1510-c.1561

The Direct Road to Music (Le droict chemin de musique, 1550). Translated and Introducted by Bernarr Rainbow.

Classic Texts in Music Education, 4. Kilkenny, 1982. 13 x 19 cm, 157, with 63 pp. Line-cut. Reveals the way in which the movement to simplify musical instruction for both adults and children was pursued under Calvinism. Page by page translation. Hardbound. $40 [item no.2717]


BRENET, Michel, 1858-1918

Les musiciens de la Sainte-Chapelle du Palais. Documents inédits, recuellis et annotés par Michel Brenet.

Geneva, 2/ 1993. 8º, 382 pp. Wrappers. $81 [item no.5583]


BUONA, Valerio, c.1560-d.?

Essempi delli passaggi, delle consonanze, et dissonanze, et d’altre cose pertinenti al compositore.

Monumenta Brixiensia, Fototypice Expressa, 5. Milan, 1971. 16 x 22 cm, 27 pp. Line-cut of the Francesco & Simon Tini edition, Milan, 1596. Hardbound. $20 [item no.2438]


Regole del contraponto et compositione [brevemente raccolte da diversi autori].

Monumenta Brixiensia, Fototypice Expressa, 4. Bologna, 1971. 16 x 22 cm, xii, 79 pp. Line-cut of the Casale, 1595 edition. Introduction in It by Angiola Cortellazzo. Hardbound. $24 [item no.3914]


BURTIUS, Nicolaus, c.1450-d.?

Musices opusculum.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/4. Bologna, 1969. 15 x 22 cm, vii, 133 pp. Line-cut of the Bologna, 1487 incunabulum, printed by Ugo de Rugeriis. Contains the earliest example of polyphonic music, complete with staves, printed by woodblock. Defends the system of hexachords as used by Guido d’Arezzo. Preface in It. Hardbound. [item no.2441]


Opusculum musicum. Ugo Rugeri / Bologna 1487 [private collection].

Faksimile-Edition Theoretica, 8 Stuttgart, 2021 Oblong, 16 x 22 cm, 133 pp. Full color facsimile of the Bologna, 1487 incunabulum, printed by Ugo de Rugeriis. Contains the earliest example of polyphonic music, complete with staves, printed by woodblock. Defends the system of hexachords as used by Guido d’Arezzo. Preface in It. Hardbound in decorative paper. $52 (more info... ) [item no.9643]


CALVISIUS (Kalwitz), Sethus, 1556-1615

Exercitationes musicae duae. Quarum prior est, de modis musicis . . . Posterior, de initio et progressu musices / Exercitationes musica tertia. [Niedersächsische Landesbibl., Hannover & Stadtbibl., Braunschweig].

Hildesheim, 1973. 10 x 16 cm, 318 pp. Line-cut of the Leipzig, 1600 and 1611 edition. Largely basing himself on Zarlino, Calvisius served to introduce that writer’s theories into Germany. Linen. $75 [item no.2539]


CAROSO, Fabritio, c.1530-c.1605

Il Ballarino. A Facsimile of the 1581 Venice Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/46. New York, 1967. 20 x 27 cm, 239 pp. Line-cut. One of the most famous early books on dance, describing and illustrating the techniques of dance as they existed at the end of the 16th c. Contains a portrait of Caroso and seven copper plates of dancers by Giacomo Franco. Highly important for music which is printed throughout both in Italian tablature and in ordinary notation. Of particular interest are the charming engraved plates showing dancing couples in splendid costumes. Laid paper. Cloth. [item no.1644]


CASA, Girolamo dalla, c.1543-c.1601

Il vero modo di diminuir, con tutte le sorti di stromenti.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/23. Bologna, 1980. 22 x 31 cm, iii, 104 pp. Line-cut of the Angelo Gardano edition, Venice, 1584. Introduction in It by Giuseppe Vecchi. Gives curious sidelight on how contemporary music was performed, including examples of brilliant and very difficult divisions on the individual voice parts of popular madrigals. Laid paper, wrappers. (more info... ) [item no.1261]


CASE, John, b.?-1600

The Praise of Musicke (1586). [British Library, London].

Anglistica & Americana, 99. Hildesheim, 1980. 14 x 20 cm, 159 pp. Line-cut of the Oxford, 1586 edition. Linen. $54 [item no.2555]


CAUS, Salomon de, 1576-1626

Institution harmonique.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/81. New York, 1969. Line-cut of the Frankfurt, 1615 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2631]


Institution harmonique divisée en 2 parties.

Geneva, 1980. 22 x 30 cm, i, 114 pp. Line-cut of the Frankfurt, 1615 edition. Preface in Fr-Eng by Pierre Féruselle. Wrappers. $56 [item no.2735]


Kunst der Mechanik. Die phantastischen Erfindungen des Salomon de Caus. [Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg; Universitäts- & Landesbiblio–thek Sachsen-Anhalt].

Michaelsteiner Forschungsbeiträge, 23 Michaelstein, 2003. 25 x 38cm, 175 pp. Line-cut of Frankfurt, 1615 edition. Includes many elaborate drawings and engravings, including ones that depict a water-powered organ & organ bellows, a musical wheel, a water organ and various pipe and keyboard designs. Kunst der Mechanik also includes a madrigal by Alessandro Strigio, beautifully engraved in keyboard tablature by Pierre Filippe. Afterword by Stefan Gugenhan. Hardbound. $55 [item no.8351]


Les raisons des forces mouvantes, avec diverses machines tant utiles que plaisantes.

Bibliotheca Organologica, 21. Buren, 1973. 2º, Line-cut of the Frankfurt, 1615 edition. Introduction and bibliography. Cloth. $141 [item no.2171]


CERONE, Pietro, c.1560-1625

El melopeo y maestro : (Napoles, J.B. Gargano y L. Nucci, 1613) / Pedro Cerone ; Antonio Ezquerro Esteban, ed.

Monumentos de la Música Española, 74. Madrid, 2007 23 x 32 cm, 2 vols: 1392 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1613 edition based on exemplars preserved in the Biblioteca “Jose Maria Lafragua” de la Benmerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (Puebla de los Angeles, Mexico), and in the Biblioteca Publica del Estadoo “Fray Francisco de Burgoa” de la Universidad Autonoma “Benito Juarez” de Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Mexico). Huge synthesis of musical-theoretical topics divided into 22 books. Deals with plainsong, mensural theory, vocal and instrumental variation, counterpoint, canon & fugue, problems of composition, mensuration and “tonality”. The last book deals with musical enigmas and puzzle canons. Contains numerous references to composers and detailed musical examples, including a careful analysis of Palestrina’s Missa L’homme armé. Hardbound. $295 [item no.9151]


Le regole più necessarie per l’introduttione del canto fermo. A cura di Bonifacio Baroffio.

Musurgiana: Sources and Materials for the History and Theory of Music, 4. Lucca, 1989. 14 x 23 cm, xxii, 39 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1609 edition. Introduction, bibliography and index. Cloth. $21 [item no.3624]


CERRETO, Scipione, c.1551-c.1633

Della prattica musica, vocale, et strumentale. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/30. Bologna, 2/ 2003. 16 x 22 cm, v, 344 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1601 edition. Preface in It by Giuseppe Vecchi. Cloth. [item no.1634]


Dell’arbore musicale. Facsimile dell’esemplare appartenuto a Padre Martini. A cura di Francesco Luisi.

Musurgiana: Sources and Materials for the History and Theory of Music, 12. Lucca, 1989. 18 x 28 cm, xv, 47 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1608 edition. Introduction, bibliography and index. Cloth. $24 [item no.3628]


COCHLAEUS, Johannes, 1479-1552

Tetrachordum musices. [Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel & Bayerische Staatsbibl., Munich].

Hildesheim, 1971. 15 x 21 cm, 64 pp. Line-cut of the Joannis Meyssenburger edition, Nuremberg 1512. Beautifully printed with woodblocks. Deals with the modes, mensural theory and serves as an instruction in sacred music. Linen. $45 [item no.2536]


COCLICO, Adrian Petit, c.1500-d.?

Compendium musices. Faksimile-Neudruck herausgegeben von Manfred F. Bukofzer.

Documenta Musicologica, I/9. Kassel, 1954. 14 x 21 cm, 119, iv pp. Line-cut of the Montanus & Neuber edition, Nuremberg 1552. Afterword in Ger-Eng. Hardbound. $52 [item no.2586]


COLONNA, Fabio, c.1567-1650

La sambuca lincea, overo dell’istromento musico perfetto, lib. iii. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/152. Bologna, 1980. 16 x 22 cm, 121 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1618 edition. Describes a new instrument (invented by Colonna) called the “Pentecontachordon” which divides the octave into 17 parts. Cloth. [item no.1259]


La sambuca lincea overo dell’istromento musico perfetto. Con annotazioni critiche manoscritte di Scipione Stella (1618-1622). A cura di Patrizio Barbieri.

Musurgiana: Sources and Materials for the History and Theory of Music, 24. Lucca, 1991. 16 x 22 cm, lxxi, 122 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1618 edition. The sambuca lincea was an enharmonic harpsichord with 31 key octaves built in Naples and based on the example of Vicentino’s archicembalo. It is actually a blatant plagiarism of a design by Scipione Stella, whose annotations in his copy of the Sambuca lincea (Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.) have been produced in full in this edition. Introduction in It-Eng. Bibliography & index. Cloth. $50 [item no.3809]


CONFORTI, Giovanni Luca, c.1560-d.?

Breve et facile maniera d’essercitarsi . . . a far passaggi. A Facsimile of the Rome, 1593[?] Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/115. New York, 1978. Oblong, 20 x 14 cm, 40 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, c.1593 edition. Laid paper, cloth. [item no.1635]


Breve et facile maniera d’essercitarsi a far passaggi. Roma, 1593.

Prattica di Musica, A/1. Rome, 1986. 24 x 30 cm, iv, 10 pp. Halftone, reproduced 2 original pages per page. Introduction in It by Giancarlo Rostirolla. Bibliography. Wrappers. $18 [item no.3520]


The Joy of Ornamentation by Giovanni Luca Conforto, Being Conforto’s Treatise on Ornamentation (Rome, 1593) with a Preface by Sir Yehudi Menuhin and an Introduction by Denis Stevens.

White Plains, 1989. 16 x 23 cm, 40, with 21 pp. Line-cut, reproducing 2 original pages per page. Historical commentary, with bibliography. Wrappers. $12 [item no.4030]


Passaggi sopra tutti li salmi [che ordinariamente canta santa chiesa, ne i vesperi della dominica, & ne i giorni festiui di tutto l’anno. Con il basso sotto per sonare, & cantare con organo, ò con altri stromenti]. Venedig, Angelo Gardano & Fratelli 1607. [Stift Kremsmünster].

Faksimile-Edition Kremsmünster, 30. Stuttgart, 2014. 16 x 22 cm, 56 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1607 edition. This fascinating ornamentation treatise—unlike the autor’s Rome c.1593 edition—is printed entirely in movable type and addresses the sacred repertoire. Hardbound, in marbled paper. $32 [item no.9363]


CORREA DE ARAUJO, Francisco, c.1576-c.1654

Libro de tientos y discursos de música práctica y teórica de órgano.

Geneva, 1981. 18 x 25 cm, 468 pp. Line-cut of the Alcala, 1626 edition. Organ tablature with a very original theoretical and technical part, followed by some 70 pieces–tientos glosas and variations. $202 [item no.812]


CORSO, Rinaldo, 1525-c.1581

Dialogo del ballo, a cura di Alessandro Arcangeli.

Antiquae Musicae Italicae Scriptores Veronenses, III. Verona, 1987. 17 x 24 cm, 21, 31, 7 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1555 edition. Introduction in It by A. Arcangeli. Index. Wrappers. $22 [item no.3986]


CROCE, Giulio Cesare, 1550-1609

La libraria (1592).

[Biblioteca Storico Giuridica e Artistico Letteraria: Letteratura Musica Teatro, 102] (= Studi e Testi Bolognesi, 2). Bologna, 1977. 16 x 21 cm, xix, 15 pp. Line-cut of the Bologna, 1592 edition. Introduction and bibliography by Marina Calore. Wrappers. $20 [item no.4050]


CROMBERGER, Jacobo, 15-16th c. [printer]

Anónimo: Arte de canto llano.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 14. Madrid, 1978. 15 x 20 cm, 27 pp. Line-cut of the Jacobo Cromberger edition, Seville, between 1512 and 1515. Cromberger was to become the greatest printer of the period in that city. Wrappers. $20 [item no.2394]


DEMANTIUS, Christoph, 1567-1643

Isagoge artis musicae, Norimberg 1607. [British Library, London].

Dictionarium musicum, 3. Buren, 1975. 14 x 21 cm, 86 pp. Line-cut of the Nürnberg, 1607 edition. Wrappers. $50 [item no.2113]


DENTICE, Luigi, c.1510-c.1561

Due dialoghi della musica, Roma, 1554. Edizione a cura di Patrizio Barbieri.

Musurgiana: Sources and Materials for the History and Theory of Music, 3. Lucca, 1988. 16 x 21 cm, xv, 80 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1554 edition. Introduction, bibliography and index. Cloth. $24 [item no.2897]


DESCARTES, Réne, 1596-1650

Musicae compendium. A Facsimile of the 1650 Utrecht Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/87. New York, 1968. 17 x 24 cm, 58 pp. Line-cut of the Utrecht, 1650 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2634]


DIRUTA, Girolamo, c.1550-d.?

Il Transilvano. Part I e II.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/132. Bologna, 2/ 1997. 22 x 32 cm, vi, 139 pp. Line-cut of the Vincenti editions, Venice, 1593 & 1622. Believed to be the first thorough going method written for organists and cembalists. The author’s experience from studying with Merulo, Porta, and Zarlino, gave him great authority on contemporary Venetian keyboard technique. Introduction in It by Luisa Cervelli. Cloth. $82 [item no.842]


Il Transilvano (1593, 1609). A Facsimile Edition with Introduction by Edward J. Soehnlen and Murray C. Bradshaw. [Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. & Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Organologica, 44. Buren, 1983. 16 x 23 cm, 71, 176 pp. Line-cut, in reduced format, of the Venice, 1593 and Venice, 1609 editions. Cloth. $123 [item no.841]


DONI, Anton Francesco, 1513-1574

La libraria del Doni Fiorentino; nella quale sono scritti tutti gli autori volgari, con cento discorsi sopra quelli.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, I/13. Bologna, 1979. 12 x 17 cm, 180 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1580 edition. A splendid bibliography of the popular literary works of the time; a short commentary is provided for 100 of the most important authors. Laid paper. Cloth. (no music). $56 [item no.5292]


DURÁN, Marcos, c.1460-d.?

Lux bella.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 1. Madrid, 1976. 17 x 24 cm, 26 pp. Line-cut of the Seville, 1492 edition. Wrappers. $20 [item no.2376]


Comento sobre lux bella.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 2. Madrid, 1976. 17 x 24 cm, 75 pp. Line-cut of the Salamanca, 1498 edition. Wrappers. $20 [item no.2377]


Sumula de canto de organo, contrapunto y composición vocal práctica y especulativa.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 3. Madrid, 1976. 17 x 24 cm, 46 pp. Line-cut of the Salamanca, 1504 edition. Wrappers. $20 [item no.2378]


EITNER, Robert, 1832-1905

Publikation älterer praktischer und theoretischer Musik-Werke. Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung.

New York, 1966. 4º & 8º, Line-cut of the Leipzig, 1873-1905 edition. 29 vols in 27. Cloth. (n.b. Complete sets of this edition are no longer available; please inquire for individual volumes) [item no.4667]


ESCOBAR, Cristóbal de, b.?-c.1514

Esta es una introducción muy breve de canto llano.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 12. Madrid, 1978. 17 x 24 cm, 8 pp. Line-cut of Salamanca, c.1500 edition. Based on the sole surviving copy in the Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin. Wrappers. $20 [item no.2392]


ESPINOSA, Juan de, 15-16th c.

Tratado breve de principios de canto llano.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 10. Madrid, 1977. 15 x 20 cm, 47 pp. Line-cut of the Toledo, c.1510-20 edition. Based on the sole surviving exemplar in the British Library. Wrappers. $20 [item no.2389]


Tratado de principios de música práctica y teórica sin dejar ninguna cosa atrás.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 13. Madrid, 1978. 17 x 24 cm, 69 pp. Line-cut of the Toledo, 1520 edition. Wrappers. $30 [item no.2393]


(Alonso, Miguel) Cuatro tratados de principios de canto llano: los de Espinosa, Aguilar, Escobar y el anónimo.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, J/M. Madrid, 1983. 17 x 24 cm, 233 pp. Commentary to above. Historical introduction. Wrappers. $64 [item no.2390]


ESQUIVEL NAVARRO, Juan de, 17th c.

Discursos sobre el arte del dançado y sus excelencias y primer origen, reprobando las acciones deshonestas.

Colección Biblioteca Valeciana. Valencia, n.d. 11 x 16 cm, 131 pp. Line-cut of the Seville, 1642 edition. Wrappers. $18 [item no.7238]


FABER, Heinrich, b.?-1522

Compendiolum musicae pro incipientibus. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/20. Bologna, 1980. 13 x 17 cm, 38 pp. Line-cut of the P. Kauffmann edition, Nuremberg, 1594. Cloth. [item no.2464]


FINCK, Hermann, 1527-1558

Practica musica.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/21. Bologna, 1969. 16 x 22 cm, 360 pp. Line-cut of the Wittenberg, 1556 edition. A general treatise on music best known for its information about vocal embellishment (part 5). Finck recommends that ornamentation be applied to all the voices of a work, but only to one voice at a time so that the embellishment can be heard clearly. It should not be introduced where there is more than one singer to a part. Contains numerous examples including a motet with its ornamentation written out. Laid paper. Hardbound. [item no.2468]


Practica musica. [Württembergische Landesbibl., Stuttgart].

Hildesheim, 1971. 16 x 21 cm, 366 pp. Line-cut of the Wittenberg, 1556 edition. Linen. $87 [item no.2535]


Practica musica. [Stadtarchiv, Heilbronn].

Faksimile Heilbronner Musikschatz, 6. Stuttgart, 1995. Oblong, 16 x 21 cm, 366 pp. Line-cut of the Wittenberg, 1556 edition. Contains numerous contemporary notes and marginalia in the hand of Johann Lauterbach. Hardbound. $74 [item no.7218]


FOGLIANI, Lodovico, b.?-1539

Musica theorica. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/13. Bologna, 1970. 22 x 31 cm, iv, 88 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1529 edition. Fogliani was a disciple of Ramos de Pareja and an opponent of the authority of Boethius. Introduction in It by Giuseppe Massera. Laid paper. Hardbound. Last copy. $63 [item no.2469]


Musica theorica. A Facsimile of the Venice 1529 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/93. New York, 1969. 22 x 33 cm, 86 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1529 edition. Laid paper, cloth. [item no.2590]


FROSCH, Johann, 16th c.

Rerum musicarum opusculum.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/39. New York, 1967. Line-cut of the Peter Schoeffer (the Younger) & Matthias Apiarius edition, Strasbourg 1535. Printed with mensural music type resembling Petrucci’s. Contains 16 pages of musical examples in 4 or 6 parts on facing pages. Laid paper with handsome binding in cloth. [item no.2641]


GAFURIO, Franchino, 1451-1522

Angelicum ac divinum opus musicae.

Scriptores, Libri Fototypice Expressi, 1. Bologna, 1971. 22 x 31 cm, 92 pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1508 edition. Laid paper. Hardbound. $52 [item no.3026]


Apologia Franchini Gafurii, adversus Ioannem Spatiarum & complices musicos Bononienses. A Facsimile of the Turin, 1520 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/96. New York, 1979. 22 x 34 cm, 20 pp. Line-cut of the Turin, 1520 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2597]


De harmonia musicorum instrumentorum. A Facsimile of the Milan, 1518 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/97. New York, 1979. 22 x 34 cm, 212 pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1518 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2598]


Practica musice. A Facsimile of the Milan, 1496 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/99. New York, 1979. 22 x 34 cm, 222 pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1496 incunabulum. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2927]


Theorica musice.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/5. Bologna, 1969. 22 x 32 cm, vi, 136 pp. Line-cut of the 1492 incunabulum. Cloth. $90 [item no.2477]


Theorica musice. A Facsimile of the 1492 Milan Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/21. New York, 1967. 22 x 33 cm, 135 pp. Line-cut of the 1492 incunabulum. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2587]


Theoricum opus musice discipline. Napoli 1480. A cura di Cesarino Ruini.

Musurgiana: Sources and Materials for the History and Theory of Music, 15. Lucca, 1996. 8º, xxiv, 244 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1480 incunabulum. The first printed book of this Lombard musician. Shows the author’s growing interest in Greek music theory and contains one of the most exhaustive Renaissance studies of proportions. Introduction, bibliography, and index. Cloth. $67 (more info... ) [item no.3801]


GALILEI, Vincenzo, 1520-1591

Dialogo della musica antica et della moderna. A Facsimile of the 1581 Florence Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/20. New York, 1967. 23 x 35 cm, 162 pp. Line-cut of the Florence, 1581 edition. In Italian lute tablature and mensural notation. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2591]


Fronimo. Dialogo sopra l’arte del bene intavolare et rettamento sonare. [Musikbibliothek der Stadt Leipzig].

Leipzig, 1978. 22 x 31 cm, 188 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1584 edition. Handsome binding in linen and vellum paper. $88 [item no.2704]


GANASSI, Sylvestro, 1492-d.?

[Method, recorder] Opera intitulata Fontegara.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/18. Bologna, 2/ 2002. Oblong, 25 x 17 cm, 158 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1535 edition. Earliest known tutor on playing the recorder and indispensable source of information on 16th-c. ornamentation. Wrappers. [item no.1838]


[Method, viol, part 1] Regola che insegna. Sonat de uiola darcho Tastada... Venedig 1542. [Library of Congress, Washington DC].

Faksimile-Edition Theoretica, 4 Suttgart, 2022. Oblong, 22 x 17 cm, 48 pp. Line-cut of the 1542 edition. Earliest known tutor on playing the viol named after the author’s aristocratic pupil, Roberto Strozzi. Hardbound in art paper. $28 [item no.9691]


GERLE, Hans, c.1500-1570

Musica teusch, auf die Instrument [der grossen unnd kleinen Geygen, auch Lautten]. Nürnberg, H. Formscheider 1532. [British Library, London].

Faksimile-Edition Laute, 10. Stuttgart, 2012. Oblong, 22 x 17 cm, 128 pp. Line-cut of the 1532 edition. Gerle introduces students to the rudiments of playing the renaissance lute, the viol and rebec, including the way they were tuned, held, and played. Musicologists have called it the first viol tutor. Hardbound with decorative paper boards. $45 [item no.9290]


GLAREANUS, Henricus Loritus, 1488-1563

Dodekachordon. [Universitätsbibl., Freiburg & Herzog August Bibl., Wolfenbüttel].

Hildesheim, 1969. 8º, 495 pp. Line-cut of the Basel, 1547 edition. A milestone in the history of music. Thorough treatment of music theory, including definitions, solmization, structure of the gamut, mutation, transposition, consonance, dissonance and modal theory. To the eight traditional modes Glareanus proposes the addition of six, some of them corresponding to the natural minor or major scales. Numerous polyphonic examples by composers of the times. Linen. $201 [item no.2542]


GÖRLITZ, Johann Friderich, 16-17th c.

Fugarum libellus [liebliche Fugen und geistlich Lieder allen kunstliebenden Musicus zu gefallen auff mancherley Art, mit drey, vier, fünff, und mehr Stimmen]. Frankfurt/Oder, F. Hartmann 1601. [Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 42. Stuttgart, 2003. 19 x 25cm, 32 pp. Line-cut of the Frankfurt an der Oder, 1601 edition. Wrappers. $15 [item no.8363]


GUILLIAUD, Maximilien, 16th c.

Rudiments de musique practique / [C. Martin:] Elementorum musices praticae pars prior, libris duobus absoluta, nunc primum in lucem aedita / [M. de Ménehou:] Nouvelle instruction familière en laquelle sont contenus les difficultés de la musique, avecque le nombre des concordances et accords.

Geneva, 1981. Oblong, 22 x 15 cm, 55, 31 & 23 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1554, 1550 & 1558 editions. Three complementary treatises on mensural music published by Nicolas du Chemin. Wrappers. $51 [item no.3302]


GUMPELZHAIMER, Adam, 1559-1625

Compendium musicae. [Schermar-Bibliothek, Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Schermar-Bibliothek Ulm, 23. Stuttgart, 1997. 17 x 20 cm, 163 pp. Line-cut of the Valentin Schoenig edition, Augsburg, 1611. Extremely popular textbook on the rudiments of music which was issued in 13 editions over a period of 90 years. Written for the author’s students at St. Anna’s in Augsburg, it is largely based on Heinrich Faber’s Compendium musicae, but with parallel texts in Latin and German and a greatly expanded musical section. Hardbound. $51 [item no.7440]


HEYDEN, Sebald, 1499-1561

De arte canendi. A Facsimile of the Nuremberg 1540 edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/139. New York, 1969. 16 x 23 cm, 175 pp. Line-cut. An instruction book for the boys at St. Sebaldus School in Nuremberg where the author was rector. Contains detailed treatment of the transpositions of the ecclesiastical modes, in itself a significant step forward from the Guidonian hexachord system to the modern system of major and minor scales. Numerous musical examples. Laid paper with handsome binding in white cloth. [item no.2622]


De arte canendi ac vero signorum in cantibus usu, libri duo. Ab ipso authore recogniti, mutati et aucti.

Hildesheim, nyp. 8º, 163 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1540 edition. Linen. $67 [item no.3594]


KAPSBERGER, Johann Hieronymus, c.1575-c.1640

[Arias, voice, bc, book 1-2; Motets, voice, bc, book 1] Libro primo di arie passeggiate a una voce con l’intavolatura del chitarone, Roma 1612; Libro primo di motetti passeggiati a una voce, Roma 1612; Libro secondo d’arie a una e più voci, Roma 1623.

Archivum Musicum: Strumentalismo Italiano, 32. Florence, 1980. 24 x 34 cm, 3 booklets, v, 80 pp. Halftone and line-cut. Over 60 monodies among the 3 publications, the first and third from engraved plates, the second in movable type. Italian lute tablature occurs only the arias of book I, otherwise staff notation has been employed. Introduction in It by Orlando Cristoforetti. Wrappers and slip cover in decorative paper. $49 [item no.1269]


[motets] Libro primo de motetti passegiati [à una voce]. Rom 1612. [Library of Congress, Washingon, DC].

Faksimile-Edition Rara, 103. Stuttgart, 2023 23 x 32 cm. 24 pp. Color reproduction of the Rome, 1612 edition. Hardbound with decorative paper boards. $40 [item no.9720]


LAGO, Giovanni del, 16th c.

Breve introduttione di musica misurata.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/17. Bologna, 1969. 16 x 22 cm, 42 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1540 edition. Hardbound. $30 [item no.2460]


LANFRANCO, Giovanni Maria, b.?-1545

Scintille di musica. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/15. Bologna, 2/ 1988. Oblong, 21 x 15 cm, xi, 151 pp. Line-cut of the Lodovico Britannico edition, Brescia, 1533. Introduction in It by Giuseppe Massera. Wrappers. [item no.2484]


LIETO (Panhormitano), Bartolomeo, 16th c.

Dialogo quarto di musica [dove si ragiona sotto un piacevole discorso sulle cose pertinenti per intavolare le opere di musica et esercitarle con la viola a mano over liuto con sue tavole ordinate per diversi gradi alti e bassi]. A cura di Patrizio Barbieri.

Musurgiana: Sources and Materials for the History and Theory of Music, 10. Lucca, 1993. 15 x 20 cm, xxvii, 43, ii pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1559 edition. Short treatise explaining how to transcribe any contrapuntal score into tabulature for viola a mano or lute. Includes 14 tables showing the gamut, clefs, staves, accidentals, and the corresponding signs for Italian lute tablature. Introdution in It-Eng. Bibliography. Cloth. $27 [item no.3797]


LIPPIUS, Johann, 1585-1612

Synopsis musicae novae omnino verae atque methodicae universae, in omnis Sophiae Praegustum.

Hildesheim, nyp. 8º, 160 pp. Line-cut of the Strasbourg, 1612 edition. Linen. $75 [item no.3596]


LOSSIUS, Lucas, 1508-1582

Erotemata musicae practicae. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/53. Bologna, 1980. 12 x 18 cm, 207 pp. Line-cut of the Nuremberg, 1563 edition. With numerous musical examples in mensural notation, many in choirbook format. Laid paper. Cloth. [item no.2486]


LUSITANO, Vicente, 16th c.

Introduttione facilissima et novissima di canto fermo, figurato, contraponto semplice, et in concerto. A cura di Giuliana Gialdroni.

Musurgiana: Sources and Materials for the History and Theory of Music, 7. Lucca, 1989. 18 x 28 cm, xvii, 52 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1561 edition. Introduction, bibliography & index. Cloth. $24 [item no.3627]


MARTIN, Claude, fl.1549-1557

Elementorum musices praticae pars prior, libris duobus absoluta, nunc primum in lucem aedita / [M. Guilliaud:] Rudiments de musique practique / [M. de Ménehou:] Nouvelle instruction familière en laquelle sont contenus les difficultés de la musique, avecque le nombre des concordances et accords.

Geneva, 1981. Oblong, 22 x 15 cm, 55, 31 & 23 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1550, 1554 & 1558 editions. Three complementary treatises on mensural music published by Nicolas du Chemin. Wrappers. $51 [item no.3302]


MARTINEZ DE BIZCARGUI, Gonzalo, 15-16th c.

Arte de canto llano y contrapunto y canto de órgano con proporciones y modos.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 8. Madrid, 1976. 17 x 24 cm, 38 pp. Line-cut of the Burgos, 1511 edition. Wrappers. $30 [item no.2387]


Intonaciones nuevamente corregidas según uso de los modernos que hoy cantan y entonan en la Iglesia Romana.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 15. Madrid, 1980. 17 x 24 cm, 32 pp. Beautiful 2-color line-cut of the Burgos, 1515 edition. Wrappers. $30 [item no.2395]


MÉNEHOU, Michel de, fl.1557-1568

Nouvelle instruction familière en laquelle sont contenus les difficultés de la musique, avecque le nombre des concordances et accords / [C. Martin:] Elementorum musices praticae pars prior, libris duobus absoluta, nunc primum in lucem aedita / [M. Guilliaud:] Rudiments de musique practique.

Geneva, 1981. 22 x 15 cm, 55, 31 & 23 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1558, 1550, & 1554 editions. Three complementary treatises published by Nicolas du Chemin. Wrappers. $51 [item no.3302]


MERSENNE, Marin, 1588-1648

Harmonicorum libri XII. In quibus agitur de sonorum natura, causis, et effectibus: de consonantiis, dissonantiis, rationibus, generibus, modis, cantibus, compositione, orbisque totius harmonicis instrumentis.

Geneva, 1973. 22 x 30 cm, 367 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1648 edition. Complements the Harmonie universelle. The copy used for this facsimile includes many manuscript notes and corrections in the author’s hand. Hardbound. [item no.2754]


MICHEL DE TOULOUSE, f.1496-1505

Dossier basses-dances: S’ensuit l’art et introduction de bien dancer / S’ensuyvent plusieurs basses dances tant communes qu’incommunes: comme on pourra veoyr cy dedans.

Geneva, 1986. 15 x 22 cm, v, 52 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, c.1488 and of the J. Moderne edition, Lyon, c.1535. L’arte contains 50 dances with both musical and choreographic notation, preceded by a treatise teaching the steps for the dances. S’ensuyvent offers a revised versionof this treatise with choreographic notation for 195 dances. Wrappers. $30 [item no.1400]


MILÁN, Luís, c.1500-d.?

Milán, Luis. Libro de motes de damas y caballeros en la Corte Valenciana de la Reina Doña Germana.

Colección Biblioteca Valeciana. Valencia, n.d. Oblong, 11 x 8 cm, x, 203 pp. Line-cut of the Valencia, 1535 edition. Wrappers. $16 [item no.7237]


MOLINA, Bartolomé, 15-16th c.

Arte de canto llano llamado lux videntis.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 9. Madrid, 1977. 17 x 20 cm, 24 pp. Line-cut Valladolid, 1506 edition. Wrappers. $20 [item no.2388]


MORLEY, Thomas, 1557-1602

A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke. With an Introduction by Edmund H. Fellowes.

Shakespeare Association Facsimiles, No.14. London, 1937. 16 x 23 cm, xiii, 224 pp. Line-cut of the Peter Short edition, London, 1597. Writing in an entertaining dialogue style, Morley pokes gentle fun at his two pupils and dispenses wit and wisdom on hexachords, musica ficta, cadences, counterpoint, composition and the various 16th-c. musical genres. In addition, the musical examples contain a number of excellent complete pieces by Morley. Deckel-edged paper, wrappers. $95 [item no.9549]


A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke.

Farnborough, 1971. 8º, viii, 183 pp. Line-cut of the Peter Short edition, London, 1597. The most celebrated English treatise of the Renaissance. Specially interesting due to added marginalia, both literary and musical, by the contemporary composer Thomas Tomkins who owned the copy. [item no.435]


NEGRI, Cesare (“il trombone”), c.1546-d.?

Le gratie d’amore.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/104. Bologna, 2/ 1983. 18 x 25 cm, 306, vi pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1602 edition. One of the great early works on Renaissance dance similiar to that of Caroso. Contains 58 engravings by Leon Palavicino after designs by Mauro Rovere showing dancers executing the figures of the gaillarde, pavane and other dances of the period. The accompanying music is in lute notation (Italian tablature), along with detailed instructions for steps and movements. Fine portrait of Negri. Afterword and bibliography by Rossana Dalmonte. Cloth. [item no.1784]


Le gratie d’amore. A Facsimile of the Milan, 1602 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/141. New York, 1969. 8º, 306 pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1602 edition. One of the great early works on Renaissance dance similiar to that of Caroso. Contains 58 engravings by Leon Palavicino after designs by Mauro Rovere showing dancers executing the figures of the gaillarde, pavane and other dances of the period. The accompanying music is in lute notation (Italian tablature), along with detailed instructions for steps and movements. Fine portrait of Negri. Laid paper. Cloth. [item no.2225]


NUCIUS, Johannes, c.1556-1620

Musices poeticae sive de compositione cantus praeceptiones absolutißime nunc primum.

Leipzig, 1976. 15 x 21 cm, 88 pp. Line-cut of the C. Scharffenberg edition, Neiße, 1613. Linen. $30 [item no.3783]


Musices poeticae sive de compositione cantus praeceptiones absolutißime nunc primum.

Leipzig, 1976. 8º, 88 pp. Line-cut of the C. Scharffenberg edition, Neiße, 1613. Linen. $34 [item no.2947]


ORNITHOPARCHUS (Vogelhofer), Andreas, c.1490-d.?

Musicae activae micrologus libris quatuor digestus. [Landes- und Hochschulbibl., Darmstadt].

Hildesheim, 1977. 13 x 19 cm, 107 pp. Line-cut of the Leipzig, 1517 edition. Linen. $45 [item no.2574]


ORTIZ, Diego, c.1510-c.1570

[Treatise, ornamentation] El primo libro nel quale si tratta delle glose sopra le cadenze et altre sorte de punti in la musica del violone.

Archivum Musicum: Strumentalismo Italiano, 57. Florence, 1984. Oblong, 24 x 17 cm, vi, 121 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1553 edition. Rules on ornamentation with examples in mensural notation. Divided into two books, part I for the performer of consort music for viols; part II presents several different kinds of compositions for one viol and cimbalo. Total of 29 works. Introduction by Marco Di Pasquale. Wrappers. $43 (more info... ) [item no.2228]


PADUANO, Giovanni, 16th c.

Institutiones veronae 1578, a cura di Giuseppe Vecchi.

Antiquae Musicae Italicae Scriptores Veronenses, II. Verona, 1988. 17 x 24 cm, 25, 105 pp. Line-cut of the Sebastiano & Giovanni delle Donne edition, Verona, 1578. Introduction in It by Giuseppe Vecchi. Wrappers. $22 [item no.4102]


PARRAN, Antoine, 1587-1650

Traité de la musique théorique et pratique contenant les préceptes de la composition.

Geneva, 2/ 1999. 8º, 153 pp. Line-cut of the Paris, 1639 edition. Wrappers. $61 [item no.3315]


PETRUCCI, Ottaviano, 1466-1539 [publisher]

Vernarecci, D. Augusto. Ottaviano de’ Petrucci da Fossombrone, inventore dei tipi mobili metallici fusi della musica nel secolo XV.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, III/35. Bologna, 1971. 8º, 300, 3 illus pp. (Rpt. of Bologna, 1882 edition). First full-length monograph on Petrucci. With listing of text incipits from motet and frottole collections. New chronological list of publications by Umberto Timossi with locations of surviving exemplars (compiled 1970). H. [item no.5332]


PHALÈSE, Pierre, c.1510-1574 [publisher]

[Des chansons, bk. 1] Des chansons reduictz en tablature de lut [à deux, trois, et quatre parties. Avecq une brieve & familiaire introduction pour entendre & apprendre par soy mesmes à iouer dudict lut, liure premier]. Löwen/Jaques Bathen und Reynier Velpen 1545. [Bibliothèque d’étude de conservation Besançon].

Faksimile-Edition Laute, 12. Stuttgart, 2014. Oblong, 18 x 22 cm, 96 pp. Line-cut of the Louvain, 1545 edition, the first edition of this distinguished print. 61 pieces for solo lute in French tablature, including preludes, fantasies, French chansons and Dutch songs. Comparison with the 1547 edition provides wonderful insight how the Phalèse printing house reedited the edition, using the same woodcuts but altering the metal type to create a slightly different format. Hardbound in decorative paper. $32 [item no.9365]


[Des chansons, bk. 1-3] Chansons reduictz en tablature de lut à deux, trois et quatre parties. Livres I-III. Introduction d’Henri Vanhulst.

Geneva, 1984. Oblong, 22 x 15 cm, viii, 242, 8 pp. Line-cut of the 1547, 1546 & 1547 editions. Set of instructions for the lute and a large collection of preludes and fantasias (by Narvaez), galliards and pavanes, as well as transcriptions of chansons by Sermisy, Clemens non Papa, etc. Wrappers. $61 [item no.990]


PISA, Agostino, 16-17th c.

Breve dichiarazione della battuta musicale.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/32. Bologna, 1969. 16 x 22 cm, vi, 144 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1611 edition. Preface in It by Walther Dürr. Hardbound. [item no.2497]


Breve dichiaratione della battuta musicale. A cura di Piero Gargiulo.

Musurgiana: Sources and Materials for the History and Theory of Music, 26. Lucca, 1996. 8º, lx, 16 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1611 edition. Introduction, bibliography and index. Cloth. $34 [item no.4758]


PODIO, Guillermo de, 15-16th c.

Ars musicorum. Premessa di Giuseppe Vecchi.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/51. Bologna, 1975. 23 x 32 cm, vi, 134 pp. Line-cut of the Valencia, 1495 incunabulum. Cloth. [item no.2461]


Ars musicorum.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 4. Madrid, 1976. 20 x 28 cm, 135 pp. Line-cut of the Valencia, 1495 edition. Wrappers. $48 [item no.2380]


PRAETORIUS, Michael, 1571-1621

Syntagma musicum: Band I, Musicae artis analecta. Wittenberg 1614/15. Faksimile-Nachdruck herausgegeben von Wilibald Gurlitt.

Documenta Musicologica, I/21. Kassel, 3/ 1986. 17 x 24 cm, 537, 30, ii pp. (Rpt. of Kassel, 1929 edition). Line-cut. Hardbound. $105 [item no.1888]


Syntagma musicum: Band II, De Organographia. Wolfenbüttel 1619. Faksimile-Nachdruck herausgegeben von Wilibald Gurlitt.

Kassel, 1929 17 x 24 cm, 311, iv pp. Line-cut. This volume, in German, describes the instruments known to the author and includes beautiful woodcut illustrations of them. Hardbound. $95 [item no.8126]


Syntagma musicum: Band II, De Organographia. Wolfenbüttel 1619. Faksimile-Nachdruck herausgegeben von Wilibald Gurlitt.

Documenta Musicologica, I/14. Kassel, 6/ 1985. 17 x 24 cm, 311, iv pp. Line-cut. This volume, in German, describes the instruments known to the author and includes beautiful woodcut illustrations of them. Hardbound. $87 [item no.1889]


Syntagma musicum: Musicae artis analecta / De Organographia / Termini musici. Reprint der Originalausgaben von 1614-15 und 1619. Herausgeben von Arno Forchert.

Kassel, 2001. 8º, 3 vols, 1153 pp. Line-cut. Wrappers. $95 [item no.7972]


RAMOS DE PAREJA, Bartolomé, c.1440-d.?

(Terni, Clemente) Música práctica de Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 16.2. Madrid, 1983. 21 x 29 cm, 346 pp. Commentary (in Sp) to above. Wrappers. $91 [item no.2397]


RAVENSCROFT, Thomas, c.1590-c.1633

A Briefe Discourse, 1614, with an Introduction by Ian Payne.

Musical Sources, 22. Kilkenny, 1984. 19 x 25 cm, x, 106 pp. Halftone of the printed edition. Ravenscroft’s famous treatise on harmonic theory illustrated by 24 examples of 4-part pieces notated in mensural notation in choirbook format. With a short note by Robert Spencer. Cloth. $56 [item no.2242]


A Briefe Discourse of the True (But Neglected) Use of Charact’ring the Degrees.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/22. New York, 1976. Line-cut of the London, 1614 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2607]


RODIO, Rocco (Rocco da Bari), 1532-c.1620

Regole di musica.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/56. Bologna, 1981. Oblong, 22 x 16 cm, 102 pp. Line-cut of the Naples, 1609 edition. Cloth. [item no.2500]


ROGNONI, Francesco, fl.1608-1624

Selva de varii passaggi per cantare, & sonare. [Bibl. del Conservatorio, Milan].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/153. Bologna, 2/ 1983. 22 x 32 cm, xii, 130 pp. Line-cut of the Milan, 1620 edition. Francesco Rognoni came from a prominent musical family and was himself a virtuoso of several instruments. Selva contains important expressive devices of the time: portar la voce, accento, tremolo, grupp, esclamatione and intonatio, absolutely essential for performing the music of Monteverdi and his generation. Introduction in It by Guglielmo Barblan. Wrappers. (more info... ) [item no.1282]


ROSSETTI, Biago, 16th c.

Libellus de rudimentis musices.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/136. New York, 1968. Line-cut of the Verona, 1529 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. $38 [item no.2623]


ROSSI, Giovanni Battista, 16-17th c.

Organo de cantori. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/57. Bologna, 1984. 22 x 31 cm, 120 pp. Line-cut of the Gardano edition, Venice, 1618. A treatise on counterpoint, complete with music examples. Includes 4 instrumental canzonas for 4 instruments & bc and duos suitable for organ. Laid paper. Cloth. $71 [item no.3741]


SALINAS, Francisco de, 1513-1590

Musices liber tertius. Estudio preliminar, facsímil, edición y traducción. J. Javier Goldáraz Gaínza, Antonio Moreno Hernández. [Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, MS 7425].

Publicaciones de la Sociedad Española de Musicología, F/4. Madrid, 1993. 17 x 24 cm, 74, 125, 175 pp. Line-cut of a manuscript, in a beautiful calligraphic hand, dated “1566, Burgos”. Wrappers. $34 [item no.7084]


SANTA MARIA, Tomás de, c.1510-1570

Libro llamado arte de tañer fantasia. Introduction by Denis Stevens. [Euing Library, University of Glasgow].

Farnborough, 1972. 19 x 28 cm, 436 pp. Line-cut. Introduction by Denis Stevens. Special Gregg “print on demand” edition, wrappers. $175 [item no.924]


SCALETTA, Orazio, c.1550-1630

Scala di musica. Molto necessaria per principianti di oratio scaletta da crema.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/33. Bologna, 1976. 17 x 24 cm, 28 pp. Line-cut of the Alessandro Vincenti edition, Venice, 1626. Laid paper. Cloth. $26 [item no.2504]


SCHLICK, Arnolt, c.1455-c.1525

Spiegel der Orgelmacher un Organisten (Mainz 1511). Translation and Notes by Elisabeth Berry Barber.

Bibliotheca Organologica, 63. Buren, 1980. 22 x 24 cm, xvi, 122, with 57 pp. Halftone. Transcription and English translation on opposite pages from facsimile. Cloth. $69 [item no.2253]


SPADI, Giovanni Battista, 17th c.

Libro de passaggi ascendenti e descendenti.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/55. Bologna, 3/ 2007. 17 x 25 cm, 31 pp. Line-cut of the A. Vincenti edition, Venice, 1624. Wrappers. $38 [item no.1285]


SPAÑON, Alonso, 15-16th c.

Introducción de canto llano.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 7. Madrid, 1976. 17 x 24 cm, 24 pp. Line-cut of the Seville, c.1503 edition. Wrappers. $20 [item no.2385]


SPATARO, Giovanni, c.1458-1541

[Opera omnia] Utile e breve regule di canto (Cod. Londin., British Museum, Add. 4920) prodeunt curante Ioseph Vecchi.

Monumenta Bononiensia, 2/2. Bologna, 1962. 24 x 33 cm, vii, 41 pp. Halftone of the London ms, reproduced one opening per page. Introduction in It. Wrappers. $18 [item no.2505]


Tractato di musica. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/14. Bologna, 1970. 22 x 32 cm, 117 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1531 edition. Laid paper. Hardbound. Last copy. $75 [item no.1983]


Tractato di musica. A Facsimile of the Venice, 1531 Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/88. New York, 1979. 22 x 33 cm, 116 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1531 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.1774]


SPECHSHART, Hugo, c.1285-1359

Flores musicae [omnis cantus Gregoriani]. [Stadtbibliothek, Ulm].

Faksimile-Edition Ulm, 37. Stuttgart, 2005. 15 x 22 cm, 168 pp + 1 foldout. Color reproduction of the Strasbourg, 1488 edition. Although written in 1332, this important padagogicial work was not published until 1488. The treatise, partly in verse, comprises 4 chapters covering solmization, the monochord, intervals and the ecclesiastical modes; the division proposed for the monochord is the first based on the chromatic scale. The marvelous woodblocks include a full-page scene with men forging, a Guidonian hand, a foldout of the monochord and numerous musical examples in Hufnagel notation. Harbound. $98 (more info... ) [item no.8554]


TIGRINI, Orazio, c.1535-1591

Il compendio della musica. A Facsimile of the 1588 Venice Edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/25. New York, 1966. 18 x 24 cm, 146 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1588 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2609]


TINCTORIS, Joannes de, c.1435-1511

Terminorum musicae diffinitorium. A Facsimile of the Treviso Edition (c. 1494).

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/26. New York, 1966. 12 x 18 cm, 30 pp. Line-cut of the Treviso, c.1494 incunabulum. Handsome binding in white cloth. $29 [item no.2116]


Terminorum musicae diffinitorium. Faksimile der Inkunabel Treviso 1495, mit der Übersetzung von Heinrich Bellermann und einem Nachwort von Peter Gülke.

Documenta Musicologica, I/37. Kassel, 1983. 15 x 21 cm, 30, 42 pp. Line-cut of the Treviso, 1495 incunabulum. With translation into Ger and afterword. Linen. $28 [item no.2851]


TOVAR, Francisco, b.?-1522

Libro de música práctica.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, 6. Madrid, 1976. 20 x 29 cm, 77 pp. Line-cut of the Barcelona, 1510 edition. Wrappers. $63 [item no.2383]


(Rubio, Samuel) Libro de música práctica de Francisco Tovar.

Colección Viejos Libros de Música, F. Madrid, 1978. 17 x 24 cm, 126 pp. Commentary to above. Historical introduction. Wrappers. $38 [item no.2384]


TROIANO, Massimo, 16th c.

Die Münchner Fürstenhochzeit von 1568. Dialoge. Zwiegespräche über die Festlichkeiten bei der Hochzeit des bayerischen Erbherzogs Wilhelm V. mit Renata von Lothringen, in München, im Februar 1568. Im Faksimile hrsg. ins Deutsche übertragen, mit Nachwort, Anmerkungen & Registern versehen von H. Leuchtmann.

Studien zur Landes- & Sozialgeschichte der Musik, 4. Munich, 1980. 8º, 494 pp. Line-cut of the 1569 edition. The Munich princely wedding from 1568 ranks as one of the greatest festivities of the 16th c., including the staging of works, masses, knightly and comic acrobatic displays, dinners, comedies, Latin plays, music, mascarades, dances, etc. The dialog is an important witness to Bavarian culture and its intricate knit with mainstream European and Italian elements. Provides a valuable report about courtly music under Orlando di Lasso’s supervision. Commentary & indices. Linen. $96 [item no.3485]


UBERTI, Grazioso, c.1574-1650

Contrasto musico, opera dilettevolle. A cura di Giancarlo Rostirolla.

Musurgiana: Sources and Materials for the History and Theory of Music, 5. Lucca, 1991. 11 x 17 cm, lxviii, 157, 35 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1630 edition. Essay on music history, morals, philosophical and juridical knowledge, by an amateur composer and man of culture, one who frequented all kinds of musical events, secular and religious. Introduction in It-Eng. Bibliography & index. Cloth. $50 [item no.3625]


VANNEO, Steffano, 1493-d.?

Recanetum de musica aurea. [Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna].

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/16. Bologna, 1969. 22 x 31 cm, iv, 194 pp. Line-cut of the Rome, 1533 edition. Hardbound. [item no.2508]


Recanetum de musica aurea, 1533. Faksimile-Nachdruck herausgegeben von Suzanne Clercx.

Documenta Musicologica, I/28. Kassel, 1970. 21 x 29 cm, ii, 194, iv pp. Line-cut of the 1533 edition. Afterword in Fr. Coverboards in decorative paper. $67 [item no.2585]


VECCHI, Orazio, 1550-1605

Mostra delli tuoni della musica. Trattato inedito di Orazio Vecchi. Introduzione e trascrizione: Mariarosa Pollastri; presentazione: Paolo Marenzi.

Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Antiche Provincie Modenesi, Biblioteca, nuova ser., 93. Modena, 1987. 8º, 44, 37 pp. Line-cut of a contemporary ms copy in the Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Bologna. Edition of 350 copies. Wrappers. $18 [item no.4989]


YSSANDON, Jean, fl.1555-1582

Traité de la musique pratique, divisé en deux parties / [Blockland de Montfort:] Instruction méthodique et fort facile pour apprendre la musique practique.

Geneva, 2/ 1998. 16 x 23 cm, 82 pp. Line-cut of the Paris & Lyon, 1582 & 1587 editions. Two complementary treatises on 16th c. music theory from the South of France. Hardbound. $61 [item no.3250]


ZARLINO, Gioseffo, 1517-1590

Dimostrationi harmoniche. A Facsimile of the 1571 edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/2. New York, 1965. 4º, 330 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1571 edition. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2592]


Le istituzioni harmoniche. A Facsimile of the 1558 Venice edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/1. New York, 1965. 4º, 358 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1558 edition. Zarlino’s principal work. Beginning from the ratios for the primary consonances, the theorist succeeds in arriving at many of the conclusions that modern theory draws from the harmonic series. Zarlino was the first to fully comprehend the implications of just intonation, to deal with harmony in terms of the triad (rather than the interval), and to recognize the importance of the basic antithesis of major and minor. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2593]


Le istituzioni harmoniche. Venezia, 1561. Saggi introduttivi di / Introductory Studies by Iain Fenlon e Paolo Da Col. Varianti dell’edizione del 1589 e indice a cura di / Variants of the 1589 Edition and Index by Paolo Da Col.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/39. Bologna, 2/ 2008. 4º, 101, 460 pp. Line-cut of the 1561 edition. Wrappers. $140 [item no.2514]


Sopplimenti musicali. A Facsimile of the Venice, 1588 edition.

Monuments of Music and Music Literature in Facsimile, II/15. New York, 1979. 22 x 34 cm, 366 pp. Line-cut of the Venice, 1588 edition. A reply to the position taken by Vincenzo Galilei (a rebellious student) who attacked Zarlino’s teachings in his Dialogo della musica. Laid paper, clothbound. [item no.2594]


ZUCCOLO, Simeon, 16th c.

La pazzia del ballo.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, II/34. Bologna, 1969. 16 x 22 cm, 62 pp. Line-cut of the edition by Iacomo Fabriano, Padova, 1549. Treatise, in 12 chapters on the origin, style and nature of the dance, dedicated to Conte Hercole da San Bonifacio Canonico. Laid paper. Hardbound. $25 [item no.1290]


COMPOSITE & MISCELLANEOUS SOURCES

[Barley, William] A new Booke of Tabliture, [containing sundrie easie and familiar Instructions, shewing howe to attaine to the knowlege, to guide and dispose thy hand to play on sundry Instruments, as the Lute, Orpharion, and Bandora: Together with divers new Lessons to each of these Instruments]. [British Library, London].

Faksimile-Edition Laute, 3. Stuttgart, 2000. Oblong, 20 x 17 cm, 108 pp. Line-cut of three companion methods printed for William Barley, respectively for lute, orpharion, and bandora. Hardbound in decorative paper. $54 [item no.7785]


Brevia musicae rudimenta latino belgicae ex prolixioribus musicorum praeceptis excerpta / [D.A. Valcoogh:] Een Reghel der duytsche Schoolmeesters (Musical Part). With an Introduction by F.R. Noske.

Early Music Theory in the Low Countries, 3. Buren, 1973. 16 x 20 cm, v, 36 pp. Line-cut of the Leiden, 1605 and Amsterdam, 1591 editions. Two complementary music treatises intended for young people who attended primary and secondary schools in the Northern Netherlands during the years around 1600. Wrappers. $42 [item no.3581]


[Faenza, Bibl. Comunale, 117] The Codex Faenza 117. Instrumental Polyphony in Late Medieval Italy Vol. I: Introductory Study; Vol. II: Facsimile Edition. Edited by Pedro Memelsdorff.

Ars Nova, Nuova Serie, 3. Lucca, 2012. 18 x 25 cm, 2 vols, 258; 212 pp. Deluxe full-color reproduction. A small unadorned parchment booklet, MS 117 of the Biblioteca Comunale Manfrediana in Faenza deals with a stunning quantity and unique quality of information on 14th- and 15th-c. Italian musical culture. The Codex is composed of two distinct and independent copying layers. The older one contains 50 non-texted intabulated diminutions generally assumed to be instrumental and dated within the first two decades of the 15th century. They comprise diminished versions of Italian and French songs by some of the major composers of the 14th and early 15th c., Jacopo da Bologna, Bartolino da Padova, Francesco Landini, Antonio Zacara da Teramo, Guillaume de Machaut, and Pierre des Molins, as well as polyphonic estampies and diminutions on dance-related and liturgical tenors, including the 3 earliest alternatim mass-pairs that have come down to us. The younger layer is an autograph by the Carmelite friar Johannes Bonadies, who in 1473 and 1474 used empty folios to add 16 music theory treatises, summaries or tables, and 22 mid- or late-fifteenth-century polyphonic settings, mostly composed by John Hothby, Bernardus Ycart, and Johannes de Erfordia, aside with some anonymous settings and a short Kyrie by Bonadies himself. Hardbound. $485 (more info... ) [item no.9299]


[Methods & theoretical writings, Renaissance, France, integrale source, parts1-4] Renaissance française. Quatre volumes réalises par Olivier Trachier. Traités, méthodes, préfaces, ouvrages generaux.

Méthodes et Traités, IX. Courlay, 2005. 4º, 4 vols, 1325 pp. Line-cut. Collection of theoretical writings on renaissance French theory, including Guerson, Wollick, Bourgeois, Champier, Guilliaud, Hesdin, Lefèvre d’Etaples, Martin, telin, Calvin, Euclide, Menehou, Philibert Jambe de Fer, Tyard, Vallette, Bertrand, Blockland de Monfort, Caïetain, Costeley, Grégoire, Je Jeune, Macé & Dandin, Plutarque, Ronsard, Yssandon & several anonymous theorists. Indispensable resources for students of Renaissance theory. Wrappers. $354 [item no.8581]


[Methods & theoretical writings, Renaissance, France, integrale source, part1] Renaissance française. Quatre volumes réalises par Olivier Trachier. Traités, méthodes, préfaces, ouvrages generaux. Volume 1: Anonyme (1-2), Guerson, Wollick.

Méthodes et Traités, IX. Courlay, 2005. 4º, ix, 330 pp. Line-cut. Collection of 4 theoretical writings on renaissance French theory, from 2 anonymous authors to Wollick. Wrappers. $119 [item no.8582]


[Methods & theoretical writings, Renaissance, France, integrale source, part2] Renaissance française. Quatre volumes réalises par Olivier Trachier. Traités, méthodes, préfaces, ouvrages generaux. Volume II: Bourgeois, Champier, Guilliaud, Hesdin, Lefèvre d’Etaples, Martin, Telin.

Méthodes et Traités, IX. Courlay, 2005. 4º, ix, 332 pp. Line-cut. Collection of 7 theoretical writings on renaissance French theory, from Bourgeois to Telin. Wrappers. $89 [item no.8583]


[Methods & theoretical writings, Renaissance, France, integrale source, part3] Renaissance française. Quatre volumes réalises par Olivier Trachier. Traités, méthodes, préfaces, ouvrages generaux. Volume 3: Anonyme (3: Calvin?), Euclide, Martin, Menehou, Philibert Jambe de Fer, Tyard, Vallette.

Méthodes et Traités, IX. Courlay, 2005. 4º, ix, 305 pp. Line-cut. Collection of 9 theoretical writings on renaissance French theory, from 3 anonymous authors to Vallette. Wrappers. $115 [item no.8584]


[Methods & theoretical writings, Renaissance, France, integrale source, part4] Renaissance française. Quatre volumes réalises par Olivier Trachier. Traités, méthodes, préfaces, ouvrages generaux. Volume 4: Anonymes (4-5-6), Bertrand (1-2-3), Blockland de Monfort, Caïetain, Costeley, Grégoire, Le Jeune (Cécile), Le Jeune (Claude), Macé et Dandin, Plutarque, Ronsard, Yssandon.

Méthodes et Traités, IX. Courlay, 2005. 4º, ix, 322 pp. Line-cut. Collection of 16 theoretical writings on renaissance French theory, from 3 anonymous authors to Yssandon. Wrappers. $119 [item no.8585]


[Methods, viol, Italy, 1600-1800, part 1] Viole de gambe. Méthodes – Traités – Dictionnaires et Encyclopédies – Ouvrages généraux. Volume I: Alfonso della Viola – Da Leno – Dalla Casa – Ganassi (1-2) – Lanfranco – Ortiz.

Méthodes et Traités, IV. Courlay, 2004. 4º, 249 pp. Line-cut of 7 original articles or treatises on the viol. Contents: Da Leno: Tavola di accordatura - 15th c.; Lanfranco: Scintille di musica - 1533; Alfonso della Viola: Il modo de sonar - c.1536; Ganassi: Regola Rubertina - 1542; Ganassi: Lettione seconda - 1543; Ortiz: Tratado de glosas - 1553; Dalla Casa: Il vero modo - 1584. Wrappers. $93 [item no.8414]


[Porto, Biblioteca Pública Municipal, ms. 714] Porto 714: Um manuscrito precioso. Manuel Pedro Ferreira.

Porto, 2001. 15.5 x 23 cm, 240 pp. Color halftone of a lovely renaissance manuscript probably written in Ferrara around 1465. This source actually consists of two parts, a theoretical section, fols.1-50 (a tract on solmization, tones and modes and the “Libellus cantus mensurabilis” by the celebrated theorist Johannes de Muris), and a collection of polyphonic songs with Italian or French texts, fols.51-79, copied in choirbook format. The music notation for the song section—executed in solid black and red ink—figures—is unusual for this time period. The composers include Robert de Anglia (2), Galfridus de Anglia (2), John Bedyngham (3), Guillaume Dufay (8) and Gilles Joye (1). The ms features 30 decorated initials executed in gold, blue, red and green ink. Commentary and codicological remarks in Portuguese and English. Bound in dark brown cloth with embossed title. (more info... ) [item no.8594]


MODERN EDITIONS

Ortiz, Diego. Tratado de glosas. Edited by Annette Otterstedt. Translated by Hans Reiners.

Kassel, 2003. Oblong, 25 x 16 cm, 126 pp. Complete edition in modern notation with a selection of line-cut reproductions. Introduction and translation in Ger-Sp-It-Eng. Hardbound. $78 [item no.8362]


Ruiz de Ribayaz, Lucas. Luz y norte musical. Harp Tablature Transcribed and Edited with a Summary of the Introduction by Astrid Nielsch and Andrew Lawrence-King.

Huntingdon, n.d. 8º, 36 pp. New practical edition. Wrappers. $15 [item no.6221]


MONOGRAPHS

[Alamire Foundation] Yearbook of the Alamire Foundation 6. [Proceedings of “Bruges-Venice: Music in Two Urban Mosaics”, Bruges, 14-16 December 2001; and part I of the 17th International Congress of the International Musicological Society, Leuven, 1-7 August 2002].

Leuven-Neerpelt, 2008. 8º, 432 pp. Contents - Mary E. Wolinski: Drinking Motets in Medieval Artois and Flanders; Julie E. Cumming: From Variety to Repetition: The Birth of Imitative Polyphony; Eric Rice: The Role of Acoustics in the Performance of Renaissance Polyphony at the Collegiate Church of Saint Mary in Aachen; Katelijne Schiltz: Polyphony and Word-Sound in Adrian Willaert’s Laus Tibi Sacra Rubens; Luminita Florea: Virtus Scriptoris: Steps towards a Typology of Illustration Borrowing in Music Theory Treatises of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance; C. Matthew Balensuela: Ut hec te figura docet: The Transformation of Music Theory Illustrations from Manuscripts to Print; Thomas Holme Hansen: Change and Continuity in Twentieth-Century Textbooks on Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint; Donna G. Cardamone Jackson: Orlando di Lasso et al.: A New Reading of the Roman Villanella Book (1555); Peter Bergquist: The Two Editions of Lasso’s Selectissimae Cantiones, 1568 and 1579; Richard Freedman: Who Owned Lasso’s Chansons?; Bernhold Schmid: ... Nec non tyronibus quàm eius artis peritioribus summopere inservientes. Zurgedruckten Überlieferung von Lassos Bicinien; Philippe Canguilhem: Musique et politique à Florence dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle; Le statut du madrigal à la lumière de nouvelles sources; Susan Lewis Hammond: Selling the Madrigal: Pierre Phalèse II and the Four ‘Antwerp Anthologies’. Wrappers. $69 [item no.6686]


Rossi, Francesco Rocco. De musica mensurabili. Manuale di notazione rinascimentale.

Lucca, 2013. 17 x 24 cm, 11 + 236 pp. Wrappers. $41 [item no.6781]


Antolini, Bianca Maria, et al. La musica a Roma attraverso le fonti d’archivio.

Strumenti della Ricerca Musicale, 2. Lucca, 1994. 8º, xviii, 644 pp. Proceedings of the international conference, Rome, June 4-7, 1992. Wrappers. [item no.5689]


Apfel, Ernst. Geschichte der Kompositionslehre. Von den Anfängen bis gegen 1700.

Taschenbücher zur Musikwissenschaft, 75-76. Wilhelmshaven, 1981. 12º, 3 vols, 952 pp. Indispensable study on the development of composition theory. Paperback. $80 [item no.5653]


Bonaventura, Arnaldo. Boccaccio e la musica.

Biblioteca Storico Giuridica e Artistico Letteraria: Letteratura Musica Teatro, 4. Bologna, 1975. 8º, 44 pp. (Rpt. of 1914 edition). Preface by Giuseppe Vecchi. Wrappers. $16 [item no.5092]


Bonaventura, Arnaldo. Dante e la musica.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, V/13. Bologna, 1978. 8º, 337 pp. (Rpt. of Livorno, 1904 edition). Hardbound. $40 [item no.5407]


Bouckaert, Bruno. Cantus 21. Mémoires du chant. Le livre de musique d’Isidore de Séville à Edmond de Coussemaker. Sous la direction de Bruno Bouckaert. Contributeurs: Florence Albaret, Véronique Denolf, Sandrine Dumont, Nele Gabriëls, Valérie Guéant, Barbara Haggh-Huglo, Thiphaine Hébert, Sofie Taes, Bruno Bouckaert, Johan Eeckeloo, Michel Huglo, Gilbert Huybens, Pierre-Jacques Lamblin, Christian Meyer, Damien Top.

Cantus 21: Patrimoine Musical du Nord de la France. Neerpelt, 2007. 24 x 29 cm, 240pp. From 19 Nov. 2005 to 18 Feb. 2006 four exhibitions, entitled “Cantus21. Patrimoine musical du Nord de la France”, were organized in Cambrai (Maison Falleur/Médiathèque municipale), Douai (Bibl. municipale and Musée de la Chartreuse) and Bailleul (Musée Benoît-De-Puydt). This exceptionally beautiful and illustrated publication is the scholarly outcome of this event containing detailed descriptions of, and commentaries on more than 150 manuscripts, prints, treatises and archival documents. 2 sections are dedicated mainly to plainchant sources and liturgical manuscripts, one elaborates on sources of polyphony and music theory from the North of France and a final section is dedicated to Charles Edmond Henri de Coussemaker (1805-1876), who was a pioneer in listing and studying music sources from the North of France. A lot of attention is paid to his vast private collection (more than 1600 books, prints and mss) and to the large number of pieces which found their way into the collections of the Brussels Royal Library and the Library of the Brussels Royal Conservatory. Wrappers. $59 (more info... ) [item no.8928]


Casimiri, R. & L. Callegari. Cantori, maestri, organisti della Cappella Lateranense negli Atti Capitolari (sec. XV-XVII). Revisione e aggiornamenti di Laura Callegari.

Biblioteca di “Quadrivium”, Note d’Archivio: Bibliografica, Biografia e Storia, 6. Bologna, 1984. 8º, 260 pp. Wrappers. $32 [item no.5027]


Chegai, Andrea & Cecilia Luzzi. Petrarca in musica. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi Arezzo, 18-20 marzo 2004. A cura di Andrea Chegai e Cecilia Luzzi.

Lucca, 2005. 8°, vii, 562 pp. Wrappers. [item no.6607]


Chilesotti, Oscar. Studi sulla chitarra e altri scritti.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, III/110. Bologna, 1975. 8º, 35, 244 pp. Collection of 13 essays, together with biographical material by Giuseppe Vecchi and Vito Fedeli. Cloth. [item no.5365]


Davidsson, Åke. Bibliographie der Musiktheoretischen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts. Mit 25 Faksimiles.

Bibliotheca Bibliographica Aureliana, IX. Baden-Baden, 1962. 16 x 24 cm, 99 pp. Catalog of printed music-theoretical works from the 16th c. Entries include title, publisher, year and references to the secondary literature. With 25 line-cut facsimiles. Bibliography and index. Wrappers. $35 [item no.2775]


Fabris, Dinko. Mecenati e musici. Documenti sul patronato artistico dei Bentivoglio di Ferrara nell’epoca di Monteverdi (1585-1645).

Con Notazioni, 4. Lucca, 1999. 8º, 515 pp. Wrappers. $67 [item no.6264]


Gaffurio, Franchino. Extractus parvus musice Franchini Gafurii.

Scriptores, IV/1. Bologna, 1970. 8º, 208 pp. Wrappers. $33 [item no.5245]


Gallico, Claudio. Rimeria musicale popolare italiana nel rinascimento.

Strumenti della Ricerca Musicale, 1. Lucca, 1997. 8º, 229 pp. Wrappers. $50 [item no.5688]


[Geschichte der Musiktheorie, v.7] Italienische Musiktheorie im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. Antikenrezeption und Satzlehre von F. Alberto Gallo, Renate Groth, Claude V. Palisca, Frieder Rempp.

Geschichte der Musiktheorie, 7. Darmstadt, 1989. 8º, xi, 418 pp. Linen. $58 [item no.5849]


[Geschichte der Musiktheorie, v.8.1] Deutsche Musiktheorie des 15. bis 17. Jahrhunderts. Zweiter Teil. Von Calvisius bis Mattheson von Werner Braun.

Geschichte der Musiktheorie, 8/I. Darmstadt, c.1995. 8º, Linen. $58 [item no.5850]


[Geschichte der Musiktheorie, v.8.2] Deutsche Musiktheorie des 15. bis 17. Jahrhunderts. Zweiter Teil. Von Calvisius bis Mattheson von Werner Braun.

Geschichte der Musiktheorie, 8/II. Darmstadt, 1994. 8º, xvii, 454 pp. Linen. $84 [item no.5851]


Jeppesen, Knud. L’arte del contrappunto nella polifonia vocale classica. Notazione. Toni ecclesiastici melodia.

Acustica, Armonia, Contrappunto, 3. Bologna, 1979. 8º, 52 pp. Wrappers. $14 [item no.5145]


Jeppesen, Knud. Compendio di una storia della teorica del contrappunto.

Acustica, Armonia, Contrappunto, 2. Bologna, 1972. 8º, 68 pp. Wrappers. $18 [item no.5144]


Lowinsky, Edward E. Musica del Rinascimento. Tre saggi a cura di Massimo Privitera.

Aglaia, 1. Lucca, 1997. 8º, 231 pp. Italian language versions of Lowinsky’s “Tonality and Atonality” (1961); “Adrian Willaert’s Chromatic Duos Reexamined”, (1989) and “Orlando di Lasso’s Prologue to Prophetiae Sybillarum” (1991). With prefaces by Bonnie Blackburn & Massimo Privitera. Wrappers. $42 [item no.6226]


Massera, Giuseppe. Dalla medietà proporzionale alla “musicalis harmonia” (F. Gaffurio dal 1480 al 1496).

Biblioteca di “Quadrivium”, Studi & Estratti, 19. Bologna, 1977. 8º, 30 pp. Wrappers. $5 [item no.5083]


Massera, Giuseppe. Dalla scala pitagorica al temperamento equale. Lezioni di acustica musicale. Anno Accademico 1969-70.

Acustica, Armonia, Contrappunto, 1. Bologna, 1971. 8º, 44 pp. Wrappers. $15 [item no.5143]


Massera, Giuseppe. Musica inspettiva e accordatura strumentale nelle “Scintille” di Lanfranco da Terenzo.

Biblioteca di “Quadrivium”, Serie Musicologica, 6. Bologna, 1964. 8º, 25 pp. Wrappers. $15 [item no.5049]


Massera, Giuseppe. Singolarità di principio e semplicità di ragioe nei fondamenti proporzionali dell’armonia consonante.

Biblioteca Storico Giuridica e Artistico Letteraria: Letteratura Musica Teatro, 31. Bologna, 1985. 8º, 64 pp. Wrappers. $11 [item no.5115]


Meyer-Baer, Kathi. Liturgical Music Incunabula. A Descriptive Catalogue.

London, 1962. 17 x 25 cm, xliii, 7, 63 pp. Survey of 257 music incunabula printed between 1547 and 1500, with 12 halftone examples. Historical introduction. Tables of notational symbols as used by the early printers. Bibliography and chronological listing. Cloth. $45 [item no.2713]


Palisca, Claude V. Studies in the History of Italian Music and Music Theory.

Oxford, 1994. 8º, xii, 522 pp. Collection of 19 essays originally published between 1956 and 1989 on various aspects of Italian music and theory. Cloth. $150 [item no.5742]


Piccolellis, Giovanni de. Liutai antichi e moderni. Note critico-biografiche.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, III/22. Bologna, 3/ 1985. 18 x 25 cm, 239 pp with 24 illus. (Rpt. of Florence, 1885-86 edition). Cloth. $53 [item no.5142]


[Sabaino, D., M.T.R. Barezzani, & R. Tibaldi] Musicam in subtilitate scrutando. Contributi alla storia della teoria musicale. A cura di Daniele Sabaino, Maria Teresa Rosa Barezzani, Rodobalbo Tibaldi.

Studi e Testi Musicali, 7. Lucca, 1995. 8º, xiii, 463 pp. 13 articles on music-theoretical subjects by R. Airoldi, M. Boni, P. Amelio, E. Pesce, D. Sabaino, A. Rusconi, E. Torselli, S. Campagnolo, G. Bonomo, R. Cafiero, A.T. Rizzo, and R. Domínguez-R. Pecci. Wrappers. $80 [item no.5645]


Scaldaferri, Nicola. Musica nel laboratorio elettroacustico. Lo studio di fonologia di Milano e la ricerca musicale negli anni cinquanta.

Quaderni di Musica/Realtà, 41. Lucca, 1997. 8º, 152 pp. Wrappers. [item no.5978]


Schiltz, Katelijne & Bonnie J. Blackburn] Canons and Canonic Techniques, 14th-16th Centuries: Theory, Practice, and Reception History. Proceedings of the International Conference, Leuven, 4-6 October 2005. Edited by K. Schiltz and Bonnie J. Blackburn.

Analysis in Context. Leuven Studies in Musicology, 1. Louvain, 2007. 8 °, xxvi, 498 pp. Although canons pervade music of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, they have not received proportionate attention in the musicological literature. The 22 contributions in this book shed light on canons and canonic techniques from a wide range of perspectives, such as music theory and analysis, compositional and performance practice, palaeography and notation, as well as listening expectations and strategies. Wrappers. (in process of continuation, standing orders invited) $128 [item no.6656]


Schreurs, Eugeen. An Anthology of Music Fragments from the Low Countries (Middle Ages–Renaissance). Polyphony, Monophony and Slate Fragments in Facsimile.

Facsimile Series, I/A.11. Peer, 1995. 23 x 33 cm, xxiv, 132, 4 pp. Full-color reproductions of fragments of medieval and renaissance music and music theory uncovered in the archives and libraries of the Low Countries. The mainly polyphonic music fragments include compositional sketches and didactic drafts as well as simple polyphony, sacred and secular monophony and slate fragments. Introduction in Flem-Eng. Linen. $123 (more info... ) [item no.7166]


Sesini, Ugo. Monumenti di teoria musicale tra medioevo e rinascimento, a cura di Giuseppe Vecchi.

Subsidia Historica, I/2. Bologna, 1966. 4º, 100 pp. Consists of three essays: “Ad lecturam musicae. Lo studio bolognese nella storia musicale”, “L’Umanesimo musicale e Ercole Bottrigari” and “Musica del Rinascimento e Rinascimento musicale”. Introduction by Giuseppe Vecchi. Wrappers. $35 [item no.5252]


Spataro, Giovanni. Utile e breve regule di canto (dal ms. Londin, British Museum, Add. 4920). A cura di G. Vecchi.

Scriptores, V. Bologna, 1967. 8º, 70 pp. Wrappers. $15 [item no.5246]


Su teoria e musica nel primo rinascimento e altri studi. Nel quinto incontro con la musica italiana e polacca (1973).

Miscellanee Saggi Convegni, 21. Bologna, 1979. 8º, 160 pp. Wrappers. $15 [item no.5235]


Toffetti, Marina. Edizioni moderna di musica antica. Sei letture critiche a cura di Marina Toffetti. Prefazione di Maria Caraci Vela.

Didattica della Filologia Musicale, 1. Lucca, 1997. 8º, 200 pp. Wrappers. [item no.5990]


Tschmuck, Peter. Die höfische Musikpflege in Tirol im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert. Eine sozioökonomische Untersuchung.

Bibliotheca Musicologica Universität Innsbruck, 5. Lucca, 2000. 8º, 391 pp. Wrappers. $59 [item no.6345]


Van der Straeten, Edmond. Les ménestrels aux Pays-Bas du XIIIe au XVIIIe siècle. Leur gilds, leurs statuts, leurs écoles, leurs fonctions, leurs instruments, leur répertoire, leurs mœurs, etc. d’après des documents inédits. Avec planches, vignettes et appendice.

Geneva, 1972. 8º, 236 pp. Line-cut of the Brussels, 1878 edition. A complementary volume to La musique aux Pays-Bas avant le XIXe siècle. Wrappers. $61 [item no.4275]


[Zacconi, Ludovico] Un musicista pesarese nel secolo XVI (Ludovico Zacconi) / I “canoni musicali” di Ludovico Zacconi / Di Ludovico Zacconi. Notizie su la vita e le opere. [A cura di] Francesco Vatielli.

Bibliotheca Musica Bononiensis, III/15. Bologna, 1968. 8º, 112 pp. (Rpt. of 1904, 1905 & 1912 edition). Three complementary studies on Zacconi, the 16th-c. music theorist. Hardbound. [item no.5321]