the John Dunstaple/Guillaume Dufay generation, Josquin des Prez, the post-Josquin generation (dominated, in his mind, by Clemens non papa), and Dressler's own contemporaries. The Latin text as published by Bernhard Engelke in Geschichtsblätter für Stadt und Land Magdeburg, XLIX-L (1914-1915) is available online through Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum, but it is somewhat flawed. A new critical text and English translation by Robert Forgacs was published in 2007 by the University of Illinois Press. References External links Praecepta musicae poeticae from Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (Engelke's transcription) 1533 births 1580s deaths People from Nebra (Unstrut) German music theorists 16th-century German composers 16th-century Latin-language writers