Cristle Collins Judd is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Pennsylvania and editor of Tonal Structures in Early Music (1998).

'… present[s] some interesting ideas about the many levels at which theory has shaped and influenced our understanding of music.' BBC Music

• List of illustrations; Foreward Ian Bent; Preface; Part I. Beginnings: 1. Prologue: Exempli gratia …; 2. Music theory incunabula: printed books, printed music; Part II. 1520–1540: Pietro Aron and Seybald Heyden: 3. Pietro Aron and Petrucci's prints; 4. Music anthologies, theory treatises, and the Reformation: Nuremberg in the 1530s and 1540s; Part III. The Polyphony of Heinrich Glarean's Dodecachordon (1547): 5. Exempla, commonplace books, and writing theory; 6. The polyphony of the Dodecachordon; Part IV. Gioseffo Zarlino's Le Istitutioni Harmoniche (1558): 7. Composition and theory mediated by print culture; 8. 'On the modes': the citations of Le Istitutioni Harmoniche part IV; Part V. Readings Past and Present: 9. Exempli gratia: a reception history of Magnus es tu Domine/Tu pauperum refugium; 10. Epilogue: reading theorists reading (music); Bibliography; Index.

Cristle Collins Judd is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Pennsylvania and editor of Tonal Structures in Early Music (1998).

'… present[s] some interesting ideas about the many levels at which theory has shaped and influenced our understanding of music.' BBC Music

• List of illustrations; Foreward Ian Bent; Preface; Part I. Beginnings: 1. Prologue: Exempli gratia …; 2. Music theory incunabula: printed books, printed music; Part II. 1520–1540: Pietro Aron and Seybald Heyden: 3. Pietro Aron and Petrucci's prints; 4. Music anthologies, theory treatises, and the Reformation: Nuremberg in the 1530s and 1540s; Part III. The Polyphony of Heinrich Glarean's Dodecachordon (1547): 5. Exempla, commonplace books, and writing theory; 6. The polyphony of the Dodecachordon; Part IV. Gioseffo Zarlino's Le Istitutioni Harmoniche (1558): 7. Composition and theory mediated by print culture; 8. 'On the modes': the citations of Le Istitutioni Harmoniche part IV; Part V. Readings Past and Present: 9. Exempli gratia: a reception history of Magnus es tu Domine/Tu pauperum refugium; 10. Epilogue: reading theorists reading (music); Bibliography; Index.

Cristle Collins Judd is Assistant Professor of Music Theory at the University of Pennsylvania and editor of Tonal Structures in Early Music (1998).

'… present[s] some interesting ideas about the many levels at which theory has shaped and influenced our understanding of music.' BBC Music

• List of illustrations; Foreward Ian Bent; Preface; Part I. Beginnings: 1. Prologue: Exempli gratia …; 2. Music theory incunabula: printed books, printed music; Part II. 1520–1540: Pietro Aron and Seybald Heyden: 3. Pietro Aron and Petrucci's prints; 4. Music anthologies, theory treatises, and the Reformation: Nuremberg in the 1530s and 1540s; Part III. The Polyphony of Heinrich Glarean's Dodecachordon (1547): 5. Exempla, commonplace books, and writing theory; 6. The polyphony of the Dodecachordon; Part IV. Gioseffo Zarlino's Le Istitutioni Harmoniche (1558): 7. Composition and theory mediated by print culture; 8. 'On the modes': the citations of Le Istitutioni Harmoniche part IV; Part V. Readings Past and Present: 9. Exempli gratia: a reception history of Magnus es tu Domine/Tu pauperum refugium; 10. Epilogue: reading theorists reading (music); Bibliography; Index.