| (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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