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JEROME CARDAN, Writings on Music
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MSD 32 JEROME CARDAN, Writings on Music
Introduction, translation, and edition by Clement A. Miller.
1st. ed.
1973
27 cm
227 pp.
MSD 32
978-1-59551-269-7
$60.00
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Contents
Portrait of Cardan Frontispiece
Preface 11
Introduction 15
PART I
On Music (Opera Omnia X, p. 105)
CHAPTER
1. In Praise of Music and its Excellence 37
2. Principles and Elements of Music 37
3. Genera of Tetrachords 49
4. Differences of Musical Instruments 51
5. The Cause of Sound in Instruments and the Difference Between Materials from which Instruments are Constructed 52
6. The Excellence of Instruments 55
7. The Individual and Common Properties of Instruments of the Second Type, and the Function of their Sound Holes 56
8. Techniques of Playing Instruments of the Second Type 60
9 On Recorders, Their Shape and Secrets 62
PART II
On Music (MS 5850)
CHAPTER
1. Principles and Axioms of Music 73
2. The Origin of Tones in an Octave 76
3. Tetrachords of the Diatonic Genus 77
4. Dieses and Commas 78
5. Ancient Music 78
6. The Chromatic Tetrachord 80
7. The Enharmonic Genus in Tetrachords 82
8. Table of Intervals 83
9. Sound, Tone, Their Causes and Nature 85
10. The Causes of Consonant and Dissonant Tones and Their Differences 87
11. The Chromatic Tetrachord and the Pentadecachord 90
12. Confutation of the Pentadecachord 91
13. The Enharmonic Tetrachord and the Pentadecachord 93
14. Divisions of Ancient Music 96
15. Modes 97
16. Exposition of Terms 101
17. Rhythms of the Second Kind 102
18. The General Nature of Music and Its Order 104
19. On the Inventor of the Art and on Vocal Music 107
20. Poetry and Song 108
21. Instruments 110
22. Solution of a Question Proposed Earlier 116
23. Dancing 117
24. The Order of all Ancient Music Reduced to One Element 120
25. The Seven-fold Diatonic Order of Hexachords of Guido d'Arezzo, or the Beginning of the New Music of Our Time 123
26. Semitones 126
27. Signs and the Smallest Parts of Tones or Semitones 127
28. Keys and Mutations 129
29. Tones 130
30. Mode and Prolation 133
31. Ligatures 135
32. Dots 136
33. Syncopation 136
34. Temporal Values and Their Proportions 137
35. The Rules of Artistic Music 138
36. Rules of Perfect Imitation 142
37. The Composition of Songs or Counterpoint 144
38. The Composition of Songs According to Useful Rules 146
39. The Composition of Songs According to Ornate Rules 149
40. Example of Canons 153
41. The Cittern, Harp, and Two Kinds of Lire 172
42. On the Lyre and Cithara 174
43. The Examination of a Lira 178
44. Precepts for Singers 182
45. Rules for Instrumental Performance and for Woodwind Players (Tibicines) 188
PART III
Selected Writings on Music
Three Genera, a Monochord of Vicentino, a Lute of Lucretia Todescha, and Precepts of Singing 193
On the Value of Music 197
On the Lyra and the Lira 199
Musical Problems 207
On Bells 210
On Gombert, Phinot, and Carpentras 210
The Sense of Hearing 211
On Music and a Symphony of Many Voices 215
Appendices 217
Bibliography 221
Index 224
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