Summary This volume explores various aspects of early music teaching (Historically Informed Music Pedagogy), performance, and theory. Contributions from thirteen scholars address topics ranging from the ancient Greek instrument helik?n used for musicians? training to the evolution of the viola bastarda technique linking historical practices with modern applications. Significant attention is given to methodological reflections on early music pedagogy, the reconstruction of incomplete pieces as a method for teaching counterpoint, and the role of improvisation and the creative process in vocal and instrumental music. Additional sections tackle the teaching of ornamentation, contrappunto alla mente and solmisation, with discussions on the status of Musica Practica and its philosophical and educational implications today. New perspectives are offered on Guido of Arezzo with an innovative contribution on the «Dialogus de musica». TABLE OF CONTENTS Marcello Mazzetti ? Livio Ticli, New Perspectives on Early Music: The Role of the Historically Informed Music Pedagogy Section 1: Ancient and Medieval Foundations of Music Theory Massimo Raffa, La geometria delle consonanze. Un antico strumento musicale greco fra teoria e pratica Angelo Rusconi, Reopening a Cold Case: Guido (of Arezzo) Author of the Dialogus de musica in Pomposa? Section 2: Renaissance Music Pedagogy and Self-Instructed Musicians Adam Knight Gilbert, Singing and Sighting with Solmization in Performance and Pedagogy (c. 1450-1521) Galliano Ciliberti, Essere autodidatta in musica a Perugia nel Rinascimento: il caso di Raffaello Sozi (1529-1589) con l?edizione dei suoi trattati di musica Carmela Barbaro, Early Music in Contemporary Curricula: Polyphonic Reconstruction as Pedagogical Tool Section 3: The Art of Improvisation in Early Music Niels Berentsen, The Slow Death of Medieval Discant: Considering the «longue durée» in Historical Improvisation Pedagogy James Hewitt, Limitation and Transformation as Creative Process in Solo Improvisation: A Study of the Sixteenth-Century Ricercar as Model Catherine Bahn, Viola bastarda: Expanding the Role of the Viol through Improvisatory and Pedagogical Techniques Section 4: Historical Music Pedagogy and Modern Applications Isaac Alonso de Molina, Musica Practica: Genesis, Structure and Implications of the Pre-modern Discipline of Music Marcello Mazzetti, Towards a ?Historical Music Pedagogy?: Rediscovering the Role of the Cantor through an Integrated Approach Livio Ticli, Learning Renaissance and Baroque Music Improvisation Improvisationally: Teaching and Inspiring a New Generation of Singers and Players Sarah Mead, Old Maps for New Explorers: Insights of an Esperiential Approach to Teaching Early Music Afterword Stefano Lorenzetti, «Initium sapientiæ est timor Domini». Per una pedagogia delle virtù musicali tra passato, presente e futuro Abstracts and Biographies