Musicae epitome ex Glareani dodecachordo

men, Christ will look upon it.
In this place, I must speak of Music, which today undeservedly suffers exile. And although there are very many who in our age have produced writings about it, they have nevertheless remained ignorant of the true foundations of that art. Regarding the mutation of syllables a method for teaching solmization, as they call it, they have spoken in the common way, things that were handed down and popularized for the use of the Choir not by any one person now for the first time, but by many teachers over many years, which indeed seemed necessary to teach for some centuries. But all those things have finally fallen into such corruption that today no one can give a certain judgment about true singing