MARIE FRANCE ETCHEGOIN MATHIEU ARONLivre Rare Book
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1552170871552 Broché - 15,5 x 23 - 425 pp - année 2005 - Editions Grasset
152339382Venice: Impressa in Vinegia per maestro Bernardino et maestro Mattheo di uitali fratelli Venitiani 1523. Full vellum with titling gilt to spine. 1f. early manuscript on vellum with decorative initials in red ink and decorative penwork in red and blue decorative pointers in black 1f. recto title printed in red within highly decorative woodcut border verso privilege 1f. dedication to Sebastiano Michele with historiated initial 2ff. contents and full-page woodcut portrait of Aron 21ff. Libro Primo 1f. recto full page plate "Coligatio Notvlar" verso blank 28ff. Libro Secondo 1f. early manuscript. With occasional decorative and historiated initials. With numerous finely-printed musical examples and diagrams throughout. Unpaginated but 54ff. in total with L4 blank as issued. In Italian. <br /> <br /> The fine full-length portrait of Aron depicts the author seated surrounded by his pupils with a viol lute recorder and books on a table in the foreground all within a densely floriated border incorporating small figures playing musical instruments. <br /> <br /> Binding slightly worn and soiled; ties lacking. Minor internal wear and soiling; occasional foxing and staining; staining to many lower blank margins and gutters; title slightly trimmed and frayed at lower and outer edges; minor annotation to one page with inking to several notes on following page resulting in staining to preceding and following leaves. First Edition. This edition not in Cortot Gregory-Bartlett or Wolffheim. Cowden: A Collector's Journey: Notable Music Books Written Prior to 1800 no. 12. Davidsson: Bibliographie der Musiktheoretischen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts p. 11. Gaspari 1 185. Reese: Fourscore Classics of Music Literature 36. Hirsch I no. 2. RISM Écrits Imprimés p. 97.<br /> <br /> "Born in tenuous circumstances Toscanello preface Aaron seems to have been largely self-taught; this may be the reason for his less systematic approach and questionable statements especially in his first treatise but also for his valuable insights into contemporary practice: from his first treatise onwards he promises to divulge 'many of the secret chambers of this art never heretofore revealed'. He is especially informative on counterpoint and compositional process distinguishing older and newer procedures the modal system in polyphonic music and the application of musica ficta. He is one of the first theorists to discuss mean-tone temperament. His Toscanello among the earliest vernacular music treatises was highly successful and ran to four editions." Bonnie J. Blackburn in Grove Music Online<br /> <br /> First published in 1523 "Toscanello . is probably the best general treatise of its generation invaluable for its clever and progressive discussions of musical practice particularly counterpoint. . Aron wrote extensively about practice scarcely ever touching on speculative theory. His ideas are derived from earlier writers notably Tinctoris Gaffurius and Spataro but he frequently extended or modified traditions." TNG 6 Vol. 1. pp. 2-3. <br /> <br /> "Aron's published works on musical theory comprise the Libri III de institutione harmonica 1516 the Trattato della natura e cognizione di tutti gli toni di canto figurato 1525 the Lucidario in musica 1545 and the Compendiolo di molti dubbi without date. His chief writing however is the Toscanello in musica 1523 and four later editions which contains the best exposition of contrapuntal rules to be found before Zarlino. Aron is the first theorist to recognize the practice of composing all voices of a composition simultaneously." Strunk: Source Readings in Music History p. 205<br /> <br /> The full-page woodcut of Aron instructing his pupils with musical instruments in the foreground represents a significant record of the history of the student/teacher relationship of the period. See Kinsky: A History of Music in Pictures p. 109 no. 2.<br /> <br /> An important work and a fine example of a very early treatise in the vernacular. Impressa in Vinegia per maestro Bernardino et maestro Mattheo di uitali fratelli Venitiani unknown
