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De musicis: An Annotated Bibliography of Works on Ancient Greek and Roman Music (MOISA)
Lexicon musicum Latinum medii aevi
Les sources manuscrites de la théorie de la musique
Primary sources: theorists (selected)
Aegidius de Murino. Tractatus cantus mensurabilis. Scriptorum de musica medii aevi nova series a Gerbertina altera, 3, 124–128, ed. Edmond de Coussemaker. Paris: Durand, 1864–1876.
Anonymous of St. Emmeram. De musica mensurata: the Anonymous of St. Emmeram, complete critical edition, translation, and commentary. Ed. and trans. Jeremy Yudkin. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.
Anonymous 4. Die Musiktraktate des Anonymous 4. Ed. Fritz Reckow. Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft 4–5. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1967.
Anonymous 4. The music treatise of Anonymous IV: a new translation. Trans. Jeremy Yudkin. Musicological Studies and Documents 41. [Rome]: American Institute of Musicology, 1985.
Anonymous, Enchiriadis. Musica Enchiriadis and Scolica Enchiriadis. Trans. Raymond Erickson. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.
Anonymous, Enchiriadis. Musica et scolica enchiriadis. Ed. Hans Schmid. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Veröffentlichungen der Musikhistorischen Kommission, vol. 3. Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1981.
Archytas of Tarentum. Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King. Carl A. Huffman. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2005.
Aristoxenus. Aristoxeni Elementa harmonica. Ed. Rosetta Da Rios. Scriptores Graeci et Latini consilio Academiae Lynceorum editi. Rome: Typis Publicae Officinae Polygraphicae, 1954.
Aurelian of Réôme. Musica disciplina. Ed. Lawrence Gushee. CSM 21. N.p.: American Institute of Musicology, 1975.
Aurelian of Réôme. The Discipline of Music/Musica disciplina. Trans. Joseph Ponte. Colorado Springs: Colorado College Music Press, 1968.
Barker, Andrew. Greek musical writings II: Harmonic and acoustic theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Boethius. De musica. Anicii Manlii Torquati Severini Boetii de institutione arithmetica libri duo; De institutione musica libri quinque. Ed. Gottfried Friedlein. Leipzig: Teubner, 1867.
Boethius. De musica. Ancius Manlius Severinus Boethius. Fundamentals of music. Trans. Calvin Bower. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1989.
Boethius [Glosses]: Bernhard, Michael, and Calvin Bower, eds. Glossa maior in institutione musicam Boethii. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Veröffentlichungen der Musikhistorische Kommission. Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1993–2011.
Cassiodorus. Institutiones. An introduction to divine and human readings by Cassiodorus Senator. Trans. Leslie Webber Jones. New York: Columbia University Press, 1946.
Cassiodorus. Institutiones. Cassiodori senatoris Institutiones. Ed. Roger A.B. Mynors. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937.
Coussemaker, Charles Edmond Henri de, ed. Scriptorum de musica medii aevi nova series. Paris: Durand, 1864–76.
Descartes. Compendium musicae. Compendium of Music. Trans. Walter Robert. [Rome]: American Institute of Musicology, 1961.
Descartes. Compendium musicae. Abrégé de musique. Ed. and trans. Frédéeric de Buzon. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1987.
Descartes. Compendium musicae. Ed. in Oeuvres de Descartes. Vol. 10. Ed. Charles Adam and Paul Tannery. Paris: J. Vrin, 1986.
Franco of Cologne. Ars cantus mensurabilis: XIIIème siècle. Trans. Jean-Philippe Navarre. Paris: Editions Du Cerf, 1997.
Franco of Cologne. Ars cantus mensurabilis. Trans. in Strunk’s Source Readings in Music History: 227–45.
Gaffurius. Theorica musicae. Trans. Walter K. Kreyszig, ed. Claude V. Palisca. Music Theory Translation Series. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1993.
Gerbert, Martin, ed. Scriptores ecclesiastici de musica. St. Blasien, 1784.
Glareanus. Dodecachordon. Trans. Clement Miller. MSD 6. N.p.: American Institute of Musicology, 1965.
Guido of Arezzo. Micrologus. Guidonis Aretini Micrologus. Ed. Joseph Smits van waesberghe. CSM 5. N.p.: American Institute of Musicology, 1955.
Guido of Arezzo. Micrologus. Hucbald, Guido, and John on music: Three medieval treatises. Trans. Warren Babb, ed. Claude Palisca. Music Theory Translation Series, vol. 3. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978.
Guido of Arezzo. Regule rithmice, Prologus in antiphonarium, and Epistola ad Michahelem: a critical text and translation with an introduction, annotations, indices, and new manuscript inventories. Ed. and trans. Dolores Pesce. Ottawa: The Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1999.
Hermannus Contractus. Musica Hermanni Contracti. Ed. and trans. Leonard Ellinwood. Eastman School of Music Studies, vol. 2. Rochester, NY: N.p, 1936.
Hucbald of St. Amand. Hucbald, Guido, and John on music: Three medieval treatises. Trans. Babb, Warren, ed. Claude Palisca. Music Theory Translation Series, vol. 3. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1978.
Hucbald of St. Amand. L’oeuvre musicale d’Hucbald de Saint-Amand: les compositions et le traité de musique. Ed. Yves Chartier. Cahiers d’études médiévales. Cahier spécial no. 5. N.p.: Bellarmin, 1996.
Isidore of Seville. Etymologies, Book III, Chapters 15–23. Trans. Helen Dill Goode and Gertrude C. Drake. Colorado College Music Press Translations, 12. Colorado Springs: Colorado College Music Press, 1980.
Isidore of Seville. Isidori Hispalensis episcopi Etymologiarum sive originum libri XX. Ed. Wallace M. Lindsay. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911.
Jacques of Liège. Jacobi Leodiensis Speculum musicae. Ed. Roger Bragard. Corpus Scriptorum de Musica 3, 1–7. [Rome]: American Institute of Musicology, 1955–73.
Jacques of Liège. Speculum musicae (excerpts). Trans. in Strunk’s Source Readings in Music History: 269–78.
von Jan, Karl, ed. Musici scriptores graeci. Leipzig: Teubner, 1917.
Jerome of Moravia. Tractatus de musica. Ed. Simon C. Cserba. Freiburger Studien zur Musikwissenschaft. 2. Reihe der Veröffentlichungen des Musikwissenschaftlichen Instituts der Universität Freiburg. Heft 2. Regensburg: F. Pustet, 1935.
Johannes Afflighemensis [?]. Johannes Afflighemensis De musica cum Tonario. Ed. Joseph, Smits van Waesberghe. CSM 1. N.p.: American Institute of Musicology, 1950.
Johannes de Garlandia. Johannes de Garlandia: De mensurabili musica. Ed. Erich Reimer. Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1967.
Johannes de Garlandia. Concerning measured music. Trans. Stanley H. Birnbaum. Colorado College Music Press Translations, 9. Colorado Springs: Colorado College Music Press, 1978.
Johannes de Muris. Die Musica speculative des Johannes de Muris: Kommentar zur Überliferung und kritische Edition. Ed. Christoph Falkenroth. Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, vol. 34. Stuttgart: Steiner, 1992.
Johannes de Muris. Jean de Murs, Écrits sur la musique. Textes en latin, traduction et commentaire. Ed. Christian Meyer. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2000.
Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. Commentary on the Dream of Scipio. Trans. with an introd. and notes William Harris Stahl. Records of civilization: sources and studies, no. 48. New York: Columbia University Press, 1952.
Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius. Ambrosii Theodosii Macrobii Commentarii in somnium Scipionis. Ed. James Willis. Leipzig: Teubner, 1963.
Marchetto of Padua. The Lucidarium of Marchetto of Padua. Ed. and trans. Jan W. Herlinger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
Martianus Capella. De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. Ed. James Willis. Stuttgart: Teubner, 1983.
Martianus Capella. Martianus Capella and the seven liberal arts. Trans. William Harris Stahl and Richard Johnson. Records of Civilization, Sources and studies, 84. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971–77.
Nicomachus of Gerasa. The manual of harmonics of Nicomachus the Pythagorean. Trans. and commentary Flora R. Levin. Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes Press, 1994.
Philippe de Vitry. Ars nova. Eds. Gilbert Reaney, André Gilles, and Jean Maillard. Corpus Scriptorum de Musica. [Rome]: American Institute of Musicology, 1964.
Philippe de Vitry. Philippe de Vitry’s Ars nova: a translation. Trans. Leon Plantinga. Journal of Music Theory 5 (1961): 204–23.
Philolaus of Croton. Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic. A commentary on the fragments and testimonia with interpretive essays. Carl A. Huffman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Porphyrius. In Harmonica Ptolemaei commentarius. Porphyrios Kommentar zur Harmonielehre des Ptolemaios Ed. Ingemar Düring. Göteborg: Elanders Boktryckeri, 1932.
Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi. Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi’s Contrapunctus: A new critical text and translation. Ed. Jan W. Herlinger. Greek and Latin Music Theory. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi. Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi “Brevis summula proportionum (…)” and “Parvus tractatulus de modo monacordum dividendi”: A new critical text and translation. Ed. Jan W. Herlinger. Greek and Latin Music Theory. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.
Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi. Prosdocimo de’ Beldomandi’s Plana musica and Musica speculativa: New Critical Texts, Translations, Annotations, and Indices. Ed. Jan W. Herlinger. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2008.
Ptolemaeus. Harmonica. Die Harmonielehre des Klaudios Ptolemaios. Ed. Ingemar Düring. Göteborg: Elanders Boktryckeri, 1930.
Ptolemaeus. Harmonica. Ptolemy’s Harmonics, trans. and comm. Jon Solomon. Mnemosyne: Biblioteca classica Batava. Supplementum 203. Leiden: Brill, 1999.
Rameau, Jean-Philippe. Traité de l’harmonie reduite à ses principes naturels. In The Complete Theoretical Writings of Jean-Philippe Rameau, vol. 1. Ed. Erwin Jacobi. Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1967.
Rameau, Jean-Philippe. Treatise on Harmony. Trans. Philip Gossett. New York: Dover, 1971.
Rameau, Jean-Philippe. Neuveau systême de musique théorique. In The Complete Theoretical Writings of Jean-Philippe Rameau, vol. 2. Ed. Erwin Jacobi. Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1967.
Rameau, Jean-Philippe. Génération harmonique. In The Complete Theoretical Writings of Jean-Philippe Rameau, vol. 3. Ed. Erwin Jacobi. Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1968
Rameau, Jean-Philippe. Harmonic generation. Trans. D. Hayes. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, 1971.
Regino of Prüm. Studien zur ‘Epistola de armonica institutione’ des Regino von Prüm. Ed. Michael Bernhard. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Veröffentlichungen der Musikhistorischen Kommission, vol. 5. Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1979.
Sectio canonis. The Euclidean division of the canon: Greek and Latin Sources. Ed. André Barbera. Greek and Latin Music Theory 8. Lincoln, NB: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.
Theinred of Dover. Theinred of Dover’s De legitimis ordinibus pentachordorum et tetrachordorum: a critical text and translation with an introduction. Ed. and trans. John L. Snyder. Musical theorists in translation 18. Ottawa: Institute of medieval Music, 2006.
Tinctoris. The art of counterpoint (Liber de arte contrapuncti), trans. Albert Seay. Musicological Studies and Documents 5. [N.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1961.
Young, Anne (Gunn), An Introduction to Music…Illustrated by Musical Games and Apparatus and fully and familiarly explained. Edinburgh: Muir, Wood & Co., 1803.
Zarlino. Le istitutione harmoniche, Venezia, 1561 [facsimile reproduction], with introductory studies by Iain Fenlon and Paolo Da Col. Bibliotheca musica Bononiensis, Sezione II, n. 39. Bologna: Arnaldo Forni, 1999.
Zarlino. Le istitutione harmoniche of Gioseffo Zarlino, part 1: a translations with introduction by Lucielle Corwin. Ph.D. Thesis. CUNY 2008.
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