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Title Heinrich Glarean's books : the intellectual world of a sixteenth-century musical humanist / edited by Iain Fenlon and Inga Mai Groote
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 382 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, map
Contents 1. Heinrich Glarean's world / Iain Fenlon and Inga Mai Groote -- 2. Theory of music and philosophy of life : the Dodekachordon and the Counter-Reformation / Laurenz Lütteken -- 3. "Mitto ad te meos de musica labores" : Glarean's Dodekachordon and the politics of dedication / Bernhard Kölbl -- 4. Sympathies with Luther's preference for the Roman church : Glarean's annotations as a mirror of his intellectual development / Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer -- 5. Glarean's Bible / Max Engammare -- 6. Henrici Glareani Concio de coena domini : Glarean as a theologian / Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer -- 7. Between the human and the divine : Glarean's De geographia and the span of Renaissance geography / Christine R. Johnson
8. Roman weights and measurements in Glarean's De asse et partibus eius / Menso Folkerts -- 9. A Dorio ad Phrygium : Glarean and the Adagia of Erasmus / Andrea Horz -- 10. Studying music and arithmetic with Glarean : contextualising the Epitome and Annotationes among the sources for Glarean's teaching / Inga Mai Groote -- 11. Glarean's didactic approach to Horace and his critical review of ancient and modern commentaries / Claudia Wiener -- 12. Chronologia est unica historiae lux : How Glarean studied and taught the chronology of the ancient world / Anthony Grafton and Urs B. Leu -- 13. Evidence for Glarean's music lectures from his students' books : congruent annotations in the Epitome and the Dodekachordon / Inga Mai Groote, Bernhard Kölbl and Susan Forscher Weiss -- 14. Heinrich Glarean's books / Iain Fenlon and Inga Mai Groote
Summary This collection of essays offers a wide range of new interdisciplinary perspectives on Heinrich Glarean's contribution to intellectual life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Glareanus, Henricus, 1488-1563.
SUBJECT Glareanus, Henricus, 1488-1563 fast
Glareanus, Henricus Loriti 1488-1563 gnd
Subject Music theorists -- Switzerland -- Biography
Humanists -- Switzerland -- Biography
Early printed books -- 16th century.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Early printed books
Humanists
Music theorists
Musikwissenschaftler
Humanist
Switzerland
Schweiz
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Fenlon, Iain, editor
Groote, Inga Mai, editor
ISBN 9781107416505
1107416507
9781139136976
1139136976
9781107420427
1107420423
9781299842076
1299842070