Glarean, Heinrich
(1488–1563)
HEINRICH GLAREANGLAREAN, HEINRICHHEINRICH GLAREAN [* 1488-† 1563] Despite our inclination to regard the creator of the twelve-mode system as progressive, Heinrich Glarean worked under a conservative humanist influence in sixteenth-century Switzerland. A disciple of Erasmus, Glarean carefully studied older theoretical treatises. One fruit of this labor was an edition of Boethius's De musica, published in 1546. The influences of Boethius and of Gaffurio are strongly in evidence in Dodecachordon…