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Chronology of music-theory treatises

concerned with tuning

[Joe Monzo]
(c.1600 BC) (anonymous) (Babylonian tuning tablets)
(582-500 BC) Pythagoras (no actual works extant, only referred by others)
400s BC Philolaus (surviving fragments)
(427-347 BC) Plato Timaeus, The Republic
(384-322 BC) Aristotle The Politics
(b. 354 BC) Aristoxenus Harmonic Elements; Rhythmic Elements
(2nd c. AD) Ptolemy The Harmonics
(480-524) Boethius De institutione musica
(485-580) Cassiodorus Institutiones musicae
(860) (anonymous) Musica Enchiriadis; Scolia Enchiriadis (900)
(900) Hucbald De harmonica institutione
(879-942) Odo of Cluny Tonarius
(c.1000) pseudo-Odo Dialogus de musica
(995-1050) Guido d’Arezzo Micrologus
(fl.1100) John Cotton De Musica
(1100) Anonymous Ad organum faciendum
(1220-30) Anonymous Discantus Posito Vulagis
(1250) Johannes de Garlandia De Musica Mensurabili Posito
(1260) Franco de Cologne Ars Cantus Mensurabilis
(c.1270) Anonymous IV De Mensuris et Discantu
(1318) Marchettus de Padua Lucidarium; Pomerium
(1320) Philippe de Vitry Ars Nova
(1330) Jacob of Liege Speculum Musicae
____ Jean de Muris Ars le Novas Musica
1477 Tinctoris Liber de arte contrapuncti
1492 Gafori (Gaffurius) Theorica musicae
1496 Gafori (Gaffurius) Practica musicae
1523 Aron (Aaron) Toscanello in music
1547 Glareanus Dodecachordon
1558 Zarlino Le Istitutioni Harmoniche
1577 Salinas De Musica
1597 Morley A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musicke
1615 Praetorius Syntagma Musicum
1636 Mersenne Harmonie universelle
1701 Sauveur Principles of Acoustics
1722 Rameau Traite de l’harmonie
1725 Fux Gradas ad Parnassum
1863 Helmholtz On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music
1840 Fetis Esquisse de l’histoire de l’harmonie
1898 Reimann The History of Music Theory
1911 Schoenberg Harmonielehre (Treatise on Harmony)
1932 Schenker Funf Urlinie-Tafeln (Five Graphic Analyses)
1935 Schenker Der freie Satz (Free Composition)
1937/39 Hindemith Unterweisung im Tonsatz (Craft of Musical Composition)
1903/09/33 Vincent d’Indy Cor de Composition Musicale
1950 Schoenberg Style and Idea
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