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1983 · réf. 41543 — Buren The Netherlands: Frits Knuf 1983. Octavo. Full olive green cloth with titling gilt to upper and spine. 71 pp. textual commentary and illustrations followed by facsimiles of Il Transilvano 1593 and the Seconda parte del Transilvano 1609 in four books. Contains four toccatas for organ by Diruta two by Andrea Gabrieli and one each by Claudio Merulo Giovanni Gabrieli Luzzasco Luzzaschi Antonio Romanini Paolo Quagliati Vincenzo Bellavere and Gioseffo Guami. The full title of the original 1593 edition was Il Transilvano. Dialogo sopra il vero modo di sonar Organi & Istromenti da Penna. Del R P Girolamo Diruta Perugino Dell'ordine de' Frati Minori Conu. di S. Francesco. Organista del Duomo di Chioggia. Nel quale facilmente & presto s'impara di conoscere sopra la Tastatura il luogo di ciascuna parte & come nel Diminuire si deveno portar le mani & il modo d'intendere la Intavolatura; provando la verità & necessità delle sue Regole con le Toccate de diversi Eccellenti Organisti poste nel fine del Libro. Opera nuovamente ritrovata utilissima & necessaria à Professori d'Organo. Con Privilegio published in Venetia by Giacomo Vincenti. Diruta an Italian organist teacher and music theorist was a pupil of Zarlino Costanzo Porta and Claudiio Merulo. "He was the author of the first comprehensive treatise on organ playing in the form of a dialogue under the title Il transilvano published in two parts Venice 1593 1609. . His treatise on playing the organ which he praises as the king of instruments was published on the instigation of Merulo who believed that certain rules were necessary for playing his own and similar compositions and the treatise probably sums up Merulo's own teaching. Diruta concerned himself with a multitude of the organist's preoccupations: the position of the player at the instrument fingering diminutions and ornamentation the application of the rules of counterpoint the church modes and the most suitable registration for the character of each transposition the method of intabulating vocal music and the method of accompanying intoning and responding to the choir. The two parts of the work are accompanied by sample intabulations of vocal music and of original compositions for the organ by Diruta and by a number of other composers." Claude V. Palisca in Grove Music Online. Frits Knuf unknown