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Mvsicae epitome ex Glareani Dodechordo vna tum qvinqve melodiis svper eivsdem Glareani Panegyrico de Helveticarum XIII urbium Laudibus

Glareanus, Henricus, 1488-1563, author, Wonnegger, Johann Ludwig, active 1550, Curio, Hieronymus, printer, Petri, Heinrich, 1508-1579, publisher, Bates, Joshua, 1788-1864, former owner, donor. MB · 1559 · Basileae [Ex officina Hieroymi Cvrionis, impensis H. Petri] · 17 pictures

This is a 1559 Basel music theory treatise by Henricus Glareanus, a compact epitome of his Dodecachordon with musical examples, printed by Hieronymus Curio and published by Heinrich Petri. The pictures are mostly staff-ruled pages of notation: diagrammatic tables of intervals with labelled rows, and printed polyphonic examples with clefs, note heads and running headers. A designer might draw on their dense, regular grids of lines, notes and small labels as a source for ordered pattern and typographic texture.

Music theory

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