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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAn Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America for 1998
Table of ContentsPrefaceEditor's PrefaceBibliographical AbbreviationsCh. 1A Sixteenth-Century Attempt at Music Criticism3Ch. 2The Courtier as Musician: Castiglione's View of the Science and Art of Music20Ch. 3Cosimo Bartoli on Music38Ch. 4The Frontispiece of Gafori's Practica Musicae (1496)79Ch. 5False Relations and Chromaticism in Sixteenth-Century Music93Ch. 6Zarlino's Definition of Fugue and Imitation121Ch. 7Lessons in Theory from a Sixteenth-Century Composer149Ch. 8Josquin as Interpreted by a Mid-Sixteenth-Century German Musician176Ch. 9The Note Nere Madrigal201Ch. 10The "Madrigale Arioso": A Mid-Century Development in the Cinquecento Madrigal222Ch. 11Giovanthomaso Cimello as Madrigalist239Ch. 12Notes on the Dialogo della Musica of Antonfrancesco Doni271Ch. 13A Gift of Madrigals to Cosimo I: The Ms. Florence, Bibl. Naz. Centrale, Magl. XIX, 130300Ch. 14The Libraria of Antonfrancesco Doni323Ch. 15Berlioz and the "First Opera"353Ch. 16Music of the Renaissance as Viewed by the Romantics366Index of Names383
