Arte minima (Silva, Manuel Nunes da)

First Publication	1685
Genre Categories	Music theory; Writings; Portuguese language

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Editor	First edition
Publisher. Info.	Lisbon: João Galrão, 1685.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
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Editor	Second edition
Publisher. Info.	Lisbon: Miguel Manescal, 1704.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del]
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Editor	Third edition
Publisher. Info.	Lisbon: Antonio Manesca, 1725.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
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Work Title	Arte minima
Alternative. Title	Title-page transcription Arte minima, que com semibreve prolaçam tratta em tempo breve, os modas da maxima, & Longa sciencia da Musica. Offerecida a Sacratissima Virgem Maria Senhora Nossa, debaixo da Invocação da Quietaçam, cuja imagem esta em a Santa Sé desta Cidade, por seu author o P. Manoel Nunes da Sylva, mestre cathedratico do Collegio de S. Catharina do Illustrissimo Senhor Arcebispo, & do Coro da Paroquial Igreja de Santa Maria Magdalena, no qual foi baptizado. (in the first edition)</span>
Composer	Silva, Manuel Nunes da
Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.	None [force assignment]
First Publication.	1685
Language	Portuguese
Dedication	Blessed Virgin Mary
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Baroque
Piece Style	Renaissance

According to Grove Music, this treatise has sections on polyphony, counterpoint, plainchant, and a "‘Trattado das Explanaçoens’ embracing the following topics: ‘The excellences of music and how it should be used’, ‘Who invented and developed music’, ‘Musical definitions and distinctions’, ‘Signs, deductions, notes [of the hexachord], properties and mutations’, ‘Clefs, divisions and genera’, ‘Intervals’, ‘Modes’, ‘Figured music’, ‘Mensural music’ and ‘The many forms of music’."