CONTENTS 
List of illustrations IX 
Foreword by lan Bent XV 
Preface XIX 
PART I BEGINNINGS 
1 Prologue: Exempli gratia ... 3
2 Music theory incunabula: printed books, printed music 17 
PART II 1520-1540: PIETRO ARON AND SEBALD HEYDEN 
3 Pietro Aron and Petrucci's prints 37 
4 Music anthologies, theory treatises, and the Reformation: Nuremberg in the 1530s and 1540s 82 
PART III THE POLYPHONY OF HEINRICH GLAREANf's DODECACHORDON (1547) 
5 Exempla, commonplace books, and writing theory 117 
6 The polyphony of the Dodecachordon 138 
PART IV GIOSEFFO ZARLINO's LE ISTITUTIONI HARMONICHE (1558) 
7 Composition and theory mediated by print culture 179 
8 "On the modes": the citations of Le istitutioni harmoniche, Part IV 226 
PART V READINGS PAST AND PRESENT
9 Exempli gratia: a reception history of Magnus es tu Domine/ Tu pauperum refugium 265 
10 Epilogue: Reading theorists reading (music) 318 
Bibliography 521 
Index 334