Plana musica : Musica speculativa / Prosdocimo de' Beldomandi ; new critical texts, translations, annotations, and indices by Jan Herlinger.
| Author/creator | Prosdocimus |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Urbana, IL : University of Illinois Press ; Chesham : Combined Academic [distributor], ©2008. |
| Description | viii, 321 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Included Work | Prosdocimus, de Beldemandis, -1428. Tractatus plane musice. English. |
| Included Work | Prosdocimus, de Beldemandis, -1428. Tractatus plane musice. |
| Included Work | Herlinger, Jan W. |
| Included Work | Prosdocimus, de Beldemandis, -1428. Tractatus musice speculative. English & Latin. |
| Included Work | Prosdocimus, de Beldemandis, -1428. Tractatus musice speculative. English & Latin. English. |
| Cover title | Prosdocimo de' Beldomandi's Plana musica and Musica speculativa |
| Series | Studies in the history of music theory and literature ; v. 4 Studies in the history of music theory and literature ; v. 4. ^A627438 |
| Contents | Prosdocimo and his treatises -- The Tractatus plane musice, the Tractatus musice speculative, and Marchetto's Lucidarium in arte musice plane -- Tractatus plane musice -- Tractatus musice speculative -- The manuscripts -- The edition -- Conspectus codicum, editionis et notarum -- Tractatus musice plane : Preface ; Part I ; Part II -- Tractatus musice speculative : Preface ; Part I ; Part II ; Part III -- Plates. |
| Abstract | Prosdocimo de' Beldomandi, professor of arts and medicine at Padua in the early fifteenth century, brought to his eight treatises on music an originality, a scientific rigor, and an aesthetic sensitivity that made him one of the preeminent music theorists of his time. Both treatises presented here respond to Marchetto of Padua's famous Lucidarium. Though Prosdocimo disdained works that confused "the theoretical part with the practical part of ... plainchant". With the Lucidarium evidently in mind, he recognized Marchetto's authority in plainchant practice and borrowed extensively from the Lucidarium in his Tractatus plane musice of 1412. As to Marchetto's radical theories of tuning, Prosdocimo hoped that his Tractatus musice speculative (1425) would help "Italy be purged of such errors." Critical editions and translations of both treatises are long overdue. The Tractatus plane musice has never before been published, and the Tractatus musice speculative is available only in a scarce and inadequate early edition of 1913. Based on a collation of the three sources of the Tractatus plane musice and both sources of the Tractatus musice speculative, the present edition includes an annotated translation on pages facing the Latin text; a critical introduction placing Prosdocimo and the treatises in their historical context; and indices of terms, names, and subjects. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pagse 259-267) and indexes. |
| Language | Translated from Latin. |
| LCCN | 2008272574 |
| ISBN | 9780252032592 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0252032594 (hbk.) |