Vincenzio Galilei

While reading "Galileo's Daughter", I noted a reference to a book on
tuning written by Galileo's father. Does anyone know if there is an
English translation of this book in print?

Fred Reinagel

> From: <FreinagelR@netscape.net>
> To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 9:32 AM
> Subject: [tuning] Vincenzio Galilei
>
>
> While reading "Galileo's Daughter", I noted a reference to a book on
> tuning written by Galileo's father. Does anyone know if there is an
> English translation of this book in print?
>
> Fred Reinagel

There's an English translation by Robert H. Herman, done as a
dissertation, available on microform at the Van Pelt Library
at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia:

> Author: Galilei, Vincenzo, d. 1591.
> Title: Dialogo della musica antica et della moderna of
> Vincenzo Galilei [microform] / translation and commentary
> by Robert H. Herman. Dialogo della musica antica et della
> moderna. English
> Publisher: c1973.
> Description: Book
> Microform
> xiv, 973, 3 leaves : ill., music.
>
> Location: Van Pelt Library Marian Anderson Music Study Center
> Call Number: Music Microfilm 294

You can find the U of Penn library catalog record by searching
by author "Galilei, Vincenzo" here:
http://www.franklin.library.upenn.edu/

It's entry number 6 right now.

love / peace / harmony ...

-monz
http://www.monz.org
"All roads lead to n^0"

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