Lot 72
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ZARLINO, Gioseffo (1517-1590). Le istitutioni harmoniche... nelle quali, oltra le materie appartenenti alla musica, si trovano dichiarati molti luoghi di poeti, d'historici, & di filosofi. Venice: Francesco Senese, 1562. 2° (304 x 207mm). Woodcut device on title, diagrams in the text, some of which full-page, initials, type-set musical examples within text. (Last three leaves with marginal worming, title dampstained with two small marginal holes.) Limp vellum (soiled, possibly a remboitage, new endpapers). Provenance: partially erased ink stamp on title.
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ZARLINO, Gioseffo (1517-1590). Le istitutioni harmoniche... nelle quali, oltra le materie appartenenti alla musica, si trovano dichiarati molti luoghi di poeti, d'historici, & di filosofi. Venice: Francesco Senese, 1562. 2° (304 x 207mm). Woodcut device on title, diagrams in the text, some of which full-page, initials, type-set musical examples within text. (Last three leaves with marginal worming, title dampstained with two small marginal holes.) Limp vellum (soiled, possibly a remboitage, new endpapers). Provenance: partially erased ink stamp on title.

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ZARLINO, Gioseffo (1517-1590). Le istitutioni harmoniche... nelle quali, oltra le materie appartenenti alla musica, si trovano dichiarati molti luoghi di poeti, d'historici, & di filosofi. Venice: Francesco Senese, 1562. 2° (304 x 207mm). Woodcut device on title, diagrams in the text, some of which full-page, initials, type-set musical examples within text. (Last three leaves with marginal worming, title dampstained with two small marginal holes.) Limp vellum (soiled, possibly a remboitage, new endpapers). Provenance: partially erased ink stamp on title.

Second edition of ‘ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT WORKS OF MUSIC THEORY’ (New Grove). With this publication, Zarlino united ‘speculative music theory with the practice of composition’. New Grove 20, p.646; Adams Z77.
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