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Gallus Dressler, Prwcepta musicaepoéticw
(The Precepts ofPoetic Music)
The Praecepta musicaepoiiticas by Gallus Dressler (1533-l580/89) has
been recognized in recent years as one of the most important sixteenth-
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Dressler's treatise, which survives in a single and highly problematic manu-
script, was originally delivered as a series oflectures for advanced students
at the Lateinschule in Magdeburg---where Dressler was Cantor-between
the dates of21 October 1563 and 29 February 1564. The first seven chap-
ters ofthe treatise draw on the treatises ofJohannes Galliculus and Heinrich
Faber, covering the basic materials ofmusic and forming a groundwork for
the following eight chapters. These later chapters, which form the major
part of the treatise, contain the most important ofDressler’s contributions
to sixteenth-century music theory. In particular, chapters 1l-14 are full of
important and original insights on the invention offugues; the composition
ofopening, middle, and concluding sections; and musical rhetoric. Arranged
on facing pages are an entirely new and improved edition ofthe treatise and
the first English translation, supported by copious annotations and an
extended introduction.
Koben rorgacs recelvea ms rnu. trom me Unwersny ot New boum
Wales in 1997 and now lectures on music and cultural history in
Tertiary/Adult Education in Sydney. He also works professionally as a
translator ofboth Latin and French.
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Studies in the History of
Music Theory and Literature
Thomas J. Mathiesen,
General Editor
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Gallus Dressler
Pracepta musicapoiitica
(The Precepts of Poetic Music)
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CONTENTS
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ......................................
INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................
Dressler's Life, Character, and Works ...................................
The Composition, Sources, Form, and Content
ofDressler'sPrwcepta musicaepoiiticas .............................
The Manuscript.
The Edition .
Synoptic Chart Listing the Variants among the
Three Published Editions ofDressler’s
Prascepta musiaepoiiticar .......................................................
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PRECEPTA MUSICAE PoryrltMi A D. GALLO DRESSELERO
NEBREO ..-------.--_--.-.
Praefatiuncula .
Caput I: De definitioneet divisione musics: poiiticas .
Caput II: De sonis seu de vocibus et consonantijs .......
Caput III: De dissonantijs m........................................................-''.'...'.
Caput [111: De prohibitis intervallis .................................................. lt
Caput V: De usu quarts et sextte ..................................................... 10
Caput VI: De partibus cantilenarum ................................................. 12t
Caput VII: De connextione consonantiarum ..................................... 128
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Caput IX: De usu clausularum .......................................................... 152
Caput X: De pausis ........................ .. 162
Caput XI: De inventione fisganun . . 164
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Caput XII: De fingendis exordijs m....................................................'. 172
Caput XIII: De medio constituendo .. . 176
Caput XIV: De constituendo fine ...... .... 186
CaputXV: De rationeprogrediendi inhoc studio ............................ 188
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INDEX VERBORUM .................................................................................. 201
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