The Florentine Camerata
Subtitle: documentary studies and translations
By: Claude V. Palisca.
Contributors: Palisca, Claude V.
Series: Music theory translation series
Publisher: Yale University Press; Yale Univ Pr
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng; ita; lat
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Music theory -- History -- 16th century; Music, Greek and Roman -- Instruction and study -- Early works to 1800; Camerata (Group of music theorists); Music theory -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
English and Italian.
Table of contents: title: The Florentine Camerata; title: The proem on Plutarch's Musica to Titus Pyrrhinus / by Carlo Valgulio; title: The letter to Vincenzo Galilei of 8 May 1572 / from Girolamo Mei; title: The Discourse addressed to Giulio Caccini, called the Roman, on ancient music and good singing / by Giovanni Bardi; title: The discourse on how tragedy should be performed / by Giovanni Bardi(?); title: Three scientific essays. Discourse concerning the various opinions that the three most famous sects of ancient musicians had concerning the matter of sounds and tunings ; A special discourse concerning the diversity of the ratios of the diapason ; A special discourse concerning the unison / by Vincenzo Galiliei; title: The prescriptions for intermedi / by Giovanni Battista Strozzi the Younger.