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SUMMARY OF

the sixteen Books of Music.

A decorative woodcut initial letter L depicts a seated figure playing a stringed instrument, such as a lute or harp, representing the personification of Music.

The First Book contains the definitions, divisions, species, and parts of Music, explains the Theory and the Practice of the Greeks and the Moderns, the eight Tones of the Church, the twelve Modes of Music, and the Diatonic, Chromatic, and Enharmonic Genre kind/style.

The Second compares sounds, consonances, and that which pertains to Music, to the diverse species of verse, to colors, to tastes, to figures, and to everything that is encountered in nature, in the sciences, and in the liberal arts; and declares what harmony the Planets make when one considers their distances, their sizes, or their movements.

The Third declares the nature and the effects of all sorts of sounds, and shows how they pass through the medium to the ear; how the Echo is made, and what comparison there is of direct, reflected, and broken sounds, with the ray of the Sun, or of the eye; where I will treat everything...