Anonymous IV

<h2 id="editions-and-translations">Editions and translations</h2>
<p>The standard edition of the treatise of Anonymous IV is that of Fritz Reckow.  Two translations into English have been made.  The most recent, still in print, is by Jeremy Yudkin.  Although the older translation by Luther Dittmer has long been unavailable, it has recently been released online by the Institute of Medieval Music.
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<h2 id="further-reading">Further reading</h2>
<ul><li>Richard H. Hoppin, <i>Medieval Music</i>. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1978. (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-393-09090-6)</li>
<li>Harold Gleason and Warren Becker, Music in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Music Literature Outlines Series I). Bloomington, Indiana. Frangipani Press, 1986. (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 0-89917-034-X)</li>
<li>Articles "Anonymous theoretical writings," "Organum," "Léonin," "Pérotin," <i>The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians</i>, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. (<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 1-56159-174-2)</li>
<li>Fritz Reckow, editor. <i>Der Musiktraktat des Anonymus 4.</i> 2 vols. Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1967. Supplement to the <i><a href="/facts/Archiv_f%C3%BCr_Musikwissenschaft/sm37Kdqw">Archiv für Musikwissenschaft</a></i> 4, 5.</li>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/details/anonymousivconce00ditt">Luther Dittmer, translator and editor.   Music Theorists in Translation 1.  Ottawa: Institute of Medieval Music, 1959.</a></li>
<li>Jeremy Yudkin (translator and editor). <i>The Music Treatise of Anonymous IV: A New Translation</i>.  Musicological Studies and Documents 41. [Rome]: <a href="/facts/American_Institute_of_Musicology/NT451bs2">American Institute of Musicology</a>, 1985.(<a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3775109949)</li></ul>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>The term originated in Edmond de Coussemaker's compilation Scriptorum de musica medii aevi, Volume 1, where the treatise appears fourth in a series of anonymous writings. He heads it "ANONYMI IV," which could mean "by Anonymous IV" or "by anonymous[:] IV".  Richard Taruskin, in the Oxford History of Western Music, has insisted that the designation apply only to the treatise and not to the author.  However, Taruskin's suggestion goes against common usage and has not, at least yet, gained popular support. <a href="/wiki/Edmond_de_Coussemaker" target="_blank">/wiki/Edmond_de_Coussemaker</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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