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MUSIC - ARON, Pietro (ca.1490-1545). Toscanello in musica . . . nuovamente stampato con laggiunta di lui fatta e con diligentia corretto. Venice: Bernardino and Matheo de Vitali, 5 July 1529. [ Bound with :] [Pietro ARON. Supplement to: Trattato di tutti gli tuoni di canto ]. Venice: Bernardino de Vitali, 1531. 2 works in one volume, 2° (278 x 187mm). Full-page woodcut of the author, numerous woodcut illustrations of musical notations, several full-page, three historiated woodcut initials, with blank L6; quire A of Toscanello has been inserted into the middle of quire a. (Title of Toscanello laid down with vertical strip cut away from outer margin, not affecting text, F2-3 browned, small worm track at inner margin, not affecting text; Supplement with five leaves only, of 6, without final blank.) Contemporary vellum, spine lettered in gilt. Aron's Toscanello was first published in 1523; this revised edition includes his ideas on the natural and the sharp in plainsong, and is apparently the corrected reprint of an earlier 1529 Vitali edition which uses the same illustrations. The woodcut of the author on the verso of a4 bears the monogram of Luc' Antonio degli Uberti, one of the most prolific illustrators of the day. Aron was a chapel master at Imola in 1521, and founded a choir-school under the patronage of Leo X. He had been made a member of the Order of Jerusalem by 1523. The Toscanello was one of the most influential general treatises on musical practice, especially counterpoint, of the period. The Toscanello in this volume is accompanied by the supplement to his work on tone, published by Bernardino de Vitali in 1525. Gaspari I, 186; Brunet I, 493; Sander 624, 62b; Essling 2038; RISM BVI,97; Mortimer, Harvard Italian (describing the 1539 edition).