Humanism in Italian Renaissance Musical Thought

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985. Hardcover. VG-/VG- (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages 1-5 have pencil marginalia but pages are otherwise clean.). Gray cloth boards with silver lettering and metallic pink illustration on spine; pale gray dust jacket with purple lettering and illustrations; xiii, 471 pp; music and bw illustrations. Contents: An Italian Renaissance in music? -- The rediscovery of the ancient sources -- The earliest musical humanists: Pietro d'Abano -- The earliest musical humanists: Giorgio Valla -- The earliest musical humanists: Carlo Valgulio. The proem to Plutarch's De musica ; A reply to an opponent of music ; The translation of the De musica of Plutarch -- The early translators: Burana, Leoniceno, Augio. Giovanni Francesco Burana ; Nicolò Leoniceno ; Giovanni Battista Augio -- Angonio Gogava. Ptolemy's harmonics ; Pseudo-Aristotle's De audibilibus ; Aristoxenus' Harmonic Elements ; Bottrigari's corrections -- Harmonies and disharmonies of the spheres. Ugolino of Orvieto ; Giorgio Anselmi ; Franchino Gaffurio ; Gioseffo Zarlino ; Johannes Tinctoris ; Francisco de Salinas ; Giovanni Battista Benedetti ; Celestial harmony as myth and metaphor -- Gaffurio as a humanist -- The ancient Musica Speculativa and Renaissance musical science. Franchino Gaffurio ; Ramos de Pareja ; Giovanni Spataro ; Lodovico Fogliano ; Gioseffo Zarlino ; Francisco de Salinas ; Girolamo Fracastoro ; Giovanni Battista Benedetti ; Girolamo Mei and Vincenzo Galilei -- Greek tonality and western modality. Johannes Gallicus ; Erasmus of Höritz ; Giorgio Valla ; Nicolò Leoniceno ; Franchino Gaffurio ; Gioseffo Zarlino ; Francisco de Salinas ; Girolamo Mei ; Vincenzo Galilei ; The tonoi and the waning of modality ; Giovanni Bardi ; Giovanni Battista Doni -- A natural new alliance of the arts. Grammar ; Mei on tonic accent ; Pietro Bembo -- The poetics of music. Music as poetry ; Vincenzo Galilei ; The poetics of imitation ; The case against mimesis: Francesco Patrizi ; Expressing the affections -- Theory of dramatic music. Francesco Patrizi ; Girolamo Mei ; Jacopo Peri.