what does "toscanello" mean?

[Gordon Holley]

Richard, I'll try to piece this together.  Toscanello is an Italian cheese 
which is semi-hard with a smooth rind and a whitish paste.  The flavor of 
the cheese is mild, slightly sharp. However as it translate to music. 
 Toscanello In Musica, Pietro Aaron, begins Aron's exposition of rules for 
composing counterpoint.  Defined as "note against note" which, if done 
correctly, should produce "a harmonic concordance of the extreme sounds." 
 You can find a complete explanation of this on the web at: 
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/classes/zbikowski/week8sum.html.  Scroll 
down to page 4 of 9.
Regards, Gordon Holley, Goshen, Indiana

-----Original Message-----
From:	Richard Moody [SMTP:remoody@midstatesd.net]
Sent:	Monday, April 16, 2001 11:19 AM
To:	pianotech@ptg.org
Subject:	what does "toscanello" mean?

Any listers Italian or speak it?    What does "toscanello" mean as in
"Toscanello in Musica"

This is the publication by Pietro Aaron of 1526 in which he gives
instructions for Meantone tuning.    Has been translated into English
but I missed the title page when I was in the library.
   Thanks ---ric