Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-333) and index.
pt. 1. Beginnings. Prologue: Exempli gratia-- -- Music theory incunabula: printed books, printed music -- pt. 2. 1520-1540, Pietro Aron and Sebald Heyden. Pietro Aron and Petrucci's prints -- Music anthologies, theory treatises, and the Reformation : Nuremberg in the 1530s and 1540s -- pt. 3. The polyphony of Heinrich Glarean's Dodecachordon (1547). Exempla, commonplace books, and writing theory -- The polyphony of the Dodecachordon -- pt. 4. Gioseffo Zarlino's Le istitutioni harmoniche (1558). Composition and theory mediated by print culture -- "On the modes" : the citations of Le istitutioni harmoniche, Part IV -- pt. 5. Readings past and present. Exempli gratia : a reception history of Magnus es tu Domine/Tu pauperum refugium -- Epilogue : Reading theorists reading (music)