Le droict chemin de musique of Louis Bourgeois =
Subtitle: (The direct path of music)
By: translated and edited with an introduction by Robert M. Copeland.
Contributors: Copeland, Robert M., 1945-
Series: Musical theorists in translation -- 19
Publisher: Institute Of Medieval Music
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ottawa, Canada
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
ISBN-13: 9781896926940
Subjects: Bourgeois, Louis, -- 16th cent.; Bourgeois, Louis, -- 16th cent. -- Criticism and interpretation.; Music theory -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Direct path of music
Work titles: Droict chemin de musique.
Notes: A revision of the translator's thesis (M.M.)--University of Cincinnati, 1970.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Background ; Calvin's musical aesthetic ; Musical theory in Calvin's Geneva ; Conclusions; title: The direct path of music. Of the fundamentals of music ; Of intoning ; Of notes, rests, dots and signatures ; Of tripla ; Of sesquialtera and hemiola ; Of the beat and the meter ; Of the minor mode ; Of prolation ; Of porportions ; Of interweaving, and the way to sing semiminims ; Of singing the text, and of the right use of music ; Of singing the psalms, by skill and by habit.