Books in the Music Theory Translation Series series

Joachim Burmeister's 17th-century treatise on the making of music is generally acknowledged to be central to the understanding of Baroque music practice. This edition reviews Burmeister's two earlier treatises on musical composition and analyzes "Musical Poetics" as a whole.

Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer Galileo, was a guiding light of the Florentine Camerata. His "Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music", published in 1581 or 1582 and here translated into English, was among the most influential music treatises of his era.