Aron Pietro

LUCIDARIO IN MUSICA DI ALCUNE OPPENIONI ANTICHE, ET MODERNE CON LE LORO OPPOSITIONI, & RESOLUTIONI, CON MOLTI ALTRI SECRETI [.] ANCHORA NON DICHIARATI [.]

      Venezia Girolamo Scotto 1545 First and only edition. With Ex libris "Alfred Cortot", the Landau copy. With the authorÕs portrait on title, woodcut initials, numerous musical diagrams in the text. 8vo (mm 210x150), beautifully bound in modern noisette morocco, the boards featuring double fillets with gold tools at the corners, spine with four raises bands, gold decorations and title, dentelles, a.e.g. 12 leaves, 41 unnumbered leaves, blank. A beautiful copy with just minor wear to the first few leaves. RARE AND UNIQUE COPY. First edition and the only edition of the LUCIDARIO of Pietro Aron, the first author who wrote a musical treatise in vernacular. The four books of the work are composed based on original dialectic structure. The highly theoretical discussion Ð pertaining to canto piano and figurato and about harmonica aspects of the contrappunto, in which Spadaro, Niccol˜ Vueso and Aron were involved Ð deals with the triadic scheme, in which at the ÔoppenioneÕ follows a ÔoppositioneÕ and a ÔresolutioneÕ of the author. The work is dedicated to Earl Fortunato Martinengo. This copy with the stamp of the Library Galletti, ex libris of the Baron of Landau and Alfred Cortot.