[Latin treatise on music in 15 chapters, based chi…]

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  • Reference
      GB 247 MS Euing R.d.51
  • Dates of Creation
      170-
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      Obl. 12mo, 124 ff., wanting 1-7, 14-15, 17, 45-46, 122

Scope and Content

[Latin treatise on music in 15 chapters, based chiefly on Kircher's Musurgia universalis, 1650.] Copied c.1700.
Caput I. De contrapuncti simplicis... f. 9.
Caput II. De usu consonantiarum imperfictarum. f. 24.
Caput III. De dissonantiis earumquè in compositione multiplici usu. f. 26v.
Caput IV. De collocatione dissontiarum ut consonae reddantur. f. 29v.
Caput V. De progressu consonantiarum, dissonantiarumquè licito, et illicito... f. 35.
Caput VI. De contrapuncto florido simplici. f. 42.
Caput VII. De tonis sive modis earumque numero, et qualitate. f. 48v.
Caput VIII. De stylis melotheticis. f. 52.
Caput IX. De nova, et admirabili contrapuncti per varias combinationes... f. 58.
Caput X. De figuris, sive tropis harmonicis in cantilenus servandis. f. 81.
Caput XI. De canonibus harmonicis, sive de symphoniis periodicis. f. 93.
Caput XII. De fugis liberis et imitantibus. f. 99v.
Caput XIII. De secretiori canonum methodo. f. 104.
Caput XIV. Regularium et naturalium 12 tonorum. f. 107.
Caput XV. De licentiis musicis, sive de usu quarundam dissonantiarum. f. 113v

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