JOHANNES TINCTORIS (c. 1435–1511) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important writers on music of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. His twelve Latin treatises demonstrate not only an exceptional technical command of the intellectually demanding musical notation and theory of the time, but also an intimate acquaintance with contemporary compositional practice, derived from a close knowledge of the composers of his day and their music, both in northern Europe, where he began his career, and in Italy, where he was employed from the 1470s to the early 1490s at the Aragonese royal court in Naples.

The Tinctoris site on EarlyMusicTheory.org is divided into several areas:

• Some introductory material about Tinctoris:
  • a biographical outline;
  • an overview of his works and sources;
  • and a Bibliography
• Complete Theoretical Works
• Complete Practical Works (forthcoming)
• Johannes Tinctoris and Music Theory in the Late Fifteenth Century: Essays and Studies, ed. Christian Goursaud and Ronald Woodley
• Other essays relating to Tinctoris

The legacy version of the Tinctoris project, hosted by The Stoa Consortium, is still available, but in due course it will be subsumed completely within the new site.

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