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Claude V. Palisca, GIROLAMO MEI, Letters on Ancient and Modern Music
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MSD 3 Claude V. Palisca. GIROLAMO MEI (1519–1594), Letters on Ancient and Modern Music to Vicenzo Galilei and Giovanni Bardi. A Study with Annotated Texts.
Revised edition.
1960
25 cm
xi + 213 pp.
MSD 3
978-1-59551-242-0
$60.00
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Contents
Preface to the Second Edition IX
Preface to the First Edition X
I. Introduction 1
II. History of the Correspondence 7
III. The Life and Studies of Girolamo Mei 15
1. Biography 18
2. Mei's Writings on Music 34
3. Mei's Rediscovery of Greek Theory: Its Influence on the Camerata 40
a. Mei's View of the Greek Tonoi 47
b. Mei's Discovery of the Tables of Alypius and the Hymns of Mesomedes 59
c. The Problem of Tuning 63
IV. Historical Significance of the Correspondence 75
V. The Manuscript 82
Letters to Vincenzo Galilei and Giovanni Bardi in Vatican Ms Regiha lat 2021 87
Letter No 1, 8 May 1572 to Galilei 89
Letter No 2, 22 November 1577 to Galilei 122
Letter No 3, 17 January 1578 to Galilei 137
Fragment on the Greek Lyre 141
Undated Fragmentary Notes on the History of Greek Music 143
Letter No 4, 17 January 1578 to Bardi 148
Letter No 5, 15 May 1579 to Galilei 155
Letter No 6, September? 1581 to Galilei 165
Appendix I. Letter, Mei to Vettori, 21 February 1562 180
Appendix II. Letter, Mei to Pinelli, 19 May 1582 183
Manuscripts Cited 186
Bibliography 187
Girolamo Mei: Manuscripts of his Works and Letters 195
Printed Works 201
Addenda to the Second Edition 203
Index of Subjects Treated in Mei's Letters 213
Index locorum classicorum 216
Index of Names 218
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