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Article: John Tucke: A Case Study in Early Tudor Music Theory.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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Major theoretical writings on music are generally "restored" in toto from a primary source, or, when a treatise enjoyed a wide-ranging circulation, from several or more surviving documents that may be categorized as primary, secondary, and so on. Of Boethius' De institutione musica, for example, 137 manuscripts survive from the ninth through fifteenth centuries from which many independent textual and illustrative traditions can be identified. Thus, with a hitherto neglected compilation of texts on musical notation, terminology, and compositional procedures from the hand of an unrecognized author of the first quarter of the sixteenth century, Woodley departs from the ...