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Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino: A Bibliography and Guide

Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino: A Bibliography and Guide Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino is the award-winning companion volume to Music Theory from Zarlino to Schenker by David A. Damschroder and David Russell Williams, published by Pendragon in 1991. Designed “for the nonspecialist as a practical and basic introduction to the treatises, people, and scholarship of medieval and renaissance theory” (xi), the book closely follows the format of the earlier volume. With its inclusion of a few treatises that predate Boethius (Augustine’s De Musica, e.g.), the work spans thirteen centuries of music theory, culminating in the sixteenth. To call the presentation of this material in a single volume a daunting task would be an understatement, and it is remarkable that it could be successfully accomplished by a team of two. The volume includes a dictionary of theorists, an extensive literature supplement, a list of abbreviations, Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) sigla, congress reports, and Festschriften, as well as an introductory user’s guide. The theorists and treatises are cross-referenced in indices that help the reader to navigate the material by topic, chronology, treatise title, and theorist name. Any work of such comprehensive scope and limited size will have inevitable shortcomings, as the authors acknowledge in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Music Theory Duke University Press

Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino: A Bibliography and Guide

Maloy, Rebecca
Journal of Music Theory , Volume 52 (1) – Mar 1, 2008
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Duke University Press
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Copyright 2008 by Yale University
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0022-2909
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1941-7497
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10.1215/00222909-2009-013
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Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino is the award-winning companion volume to Music Theory from Zarlino to Schenker by David A. Damschroder and David Russell Williams, published by Pendragon in 1991. Designed “for the nonspecialist as a practical and basic introduction to the treatises, people, and scholarship of medieval and renaissance theory” (xi), the book closely follows the format of the earlier volume. With its inclusion of a few treatises that predate Boethius (Augustine’s De Musica, e.g.), the work spans thirteen centuries of music theory, culminating in the sixteenth. To call the presentation of this material in a single volume a daunting task would be an understatement, and it is remarkable that it could be successfully accomplished by a team of two. The volume includes a dictionary of theorists, an extensive literature supplement, a list of abbreviations, Répertoire International des Sources Musicales (RISM) sigla, congress reports, and Festschriften, as well as an introductory user’s guide. The theorists and treatises are cross-referenced in indices that help the reader to navigate the material by topic, chronology, treatise title, and theorist name. Any work of such comprehensive scope and limited size will have inevitable shortcomings, as the authors acknowledge in the

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Published: Mar 1, 2008

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