Musicae epitome ex Glareani dodecachordo

has been omitted that pertains to the true knowledge of the modes, as handed down in the books of Glareanus, except for the fact that in those books everything is written in a more magnificent and copious manner. Here, however, everything is directed toward practice, and many things useful for theory from the same source have been added. The distinction between the modes is clearly proposed. In the church, the intonations in the nine modes have not been neglected; diagrams have been added to the rules and precepts, so that unless one is a complete blockhead, one can easily find one's way. Certain people took offense at the Christian examples that Glareanus placed in his music book. But if he had brought forward pagan

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