So, what is this?

I decided that once a month I would post an image from some historical music treatise. There is no particular connection between the various images, other than that they all peaked my interest at some point. Anyways, I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

January 2012

Heinrich Glarean. Dodecahordon. Basel, 1548: p. 80.

December 2011

Girolamo Diruta. Il Transilvano, 1625: p. 7.

November 2011

Thomas Morley. A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music, 1597, reprinted 1771: p. 198.

October 2011

J. S. Bach. Clavier-Büchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, 1720: Table of ornaments.

September 2011

Gioseffo Zarlino. Le Istitutioni Harmoniche, 1558: Book II, p. 122.