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ZARLINO, GIOSEFFO. Le Institutioni Harmoniche. Woodcut diagrams, illustrations, and letterpress music examples in text. [12], 347 pages. Folio, 306x207 mm, 19th-century 1/2 vellum, soiled, spine darkened with short crack at top of front joint, endpapers renewed; modern owners' inscriptions on front pastedown, foxing and old inscription on title, ink stain on fore edges slightly showing internally, contents otherwise clean. Venice: [Pietro da Fino], 1558
first edition of Zarlino's most important work, a landmark in the history of music theory. " 'The Rules of Harmony' opened the way for the new tonality which has governed music from the seventeenth century to the present day"--Printing and the Mind of Man 81. New Grove XX, 646-47; Riccardi II, 661.
