Historische Beschreibung der edelen Sing- und Kling-Kunst - Printz, Wolfgang Caspar 1641-1717 (Dresden Mieth, 1690)
The very first history of music, predating even notions of the historiography of art (cf. Pierre Monier 1698)
Wolfgang Caspar Printz was a cantor in Sorau, where he met Telemann
Frontispiece in red and black ink, with an engraved plate showing Orpheus taming the animals with a harp
Dedicated, with a foreword dated 10 April 1690, to Friedrich Benedict Carpzov (1649-1699), co-editor of the 'Acta eruditorum'
For an 18th-century review of this book, see Marpurg's 'Historisch-kritische Beyträge' (X3C18_01)
Curiously, the book does not mention Palestrina!
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