Dressler, Gallus
(*1533)
GALLUS DRESSLERDRESSLER, GALLUSGALLUS DRESSLER [* 1533-† ca. 1580-89] As musical structures became more complex in the sixteenth century, theories of mode and of counterpoint were revised and coordinated with ideas borrowed from rhetoric, resulting in a line of thought called musica poetica, which, since directed towards composers, complemented the performer's musica practica and the more speculative musica theorica. Gallus Dreßler, in lectures delivered at Magdeburg beginning in 1559 and in a…