Heinrich Glarean's Books

The Intellectual World of a Sixteenth-Century Musical Humanist

Iain Fenlon, Inga Mai Groote

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781107022690
• eBook ISBN:
  9781107439375
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music

This collection of essays investigates the work of Heinrich Glarean, one of the most influential humanists and music theorists of the sixteenth century. For the first time, Glarean's musical writings, including his masterwork the Dodekachordon, are considered in the wider context of his work in a variety of disciplines such as musicology, history, theology and geography. Contributors reference books from Glarean's private library, including rare and previously unseen material, to explore his strategies and impact as a humanist author and university teacher. The book also uses other newly discovered source material such as course notes written by students and Glarean's preparations for his own lectures to offer a fascinating picture of his reactions to contemporary debates. Providing a detailed analysis of Glarean's library as reconstructed from the surviving copies, Heinrich Glarean's Books offers new and exciting perspectives on the multidisciplinary work of an accomplished intellectual.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Illustrations
• Notes on contributors
• Preface
• Editors' note
• Abbreviations
• 1 Heinrich Glarean's world
• 2 Theory of music and philosophy of life: the Dodekachordon and the Counter-Reformation
• 3 'Mitto ad te meos de musica labores': Glarean' s Dodekachordon and the politics of dedication
• 4 Sympathies with Luther - preference for the Roman Church: Glarean's annotations as a mirror of his intellectual development
• 5 Glarean's Bible
• 6 Henrichi Glareani concio de coena domini: Glarean as a theologian
• 7 Between the human and the divine: Glarean's De geographia and the span of Renaissance geography
• 8 Roman weights and measurements in Glarean's Liber de asse et partibus eius
• 9 A Dorio ad Phrygium: Glarean and the Adagia of Erasmus
• 10 Studying music and arithmetic with Glarean: contextualizing the Epitomes and Annotationes among the sources for Glarean's teaching
• 11 Glarean's didactic approach to Horace, and his critical review of classical and modern commentaries
• 12 Chronologia est unica historiae lux: how Glarean studied and taught the chronology of the ancient world
• 13 Evidence for Glarean's music lectures from his students' books: congruent annotations in the Epitome and the Dodekachordon
• 14 Heinrich Glarean's books
• Appendix 1 Catalogue of Glarean's works
• Appendix 2 Henrichi Glareani concio de coena domini
• Appendix 3 Glareani in Musices suae epitomen annotationes
• Bibliography
• Index