Bartolome Ramos de Pareja

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Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja (* around 1440 in Baeza , † after 1491 probably in Rome ) was a Spanish mathematician , music theorist and composer . Only the Latin treatise Musica practica from 1482 has survived.

Life

As he himself testifies at the end of his Musica practica , he was born in Baeza , perhaps around 1440. Baltasar Saldoni states in his music lexicon of 1868 that January 26, 1440 is given as his birthday, but immediately restricts that for it no documentary evidence was available. Most of the biographical details must be inferred from his treatise. Then he was a student of Juan de Monte and became a teacher at the University of Salamanca . There he commented on the work of Boëthius ( cum Boetium in musica legeremus ). In Salamanca he debated his music theory with Pedro de Osma . In 1482 he proposed a new division of the monochord , which included the pure thirds 5/4 and 6/5 with inversions. In doing so, he broke with the Pythagorean system that had dominated the Ars antiqua since Boëthius and Guido von Arezzo . Ramos de Pareja's new views were very slowly accepted. Later he worked mainly in Bologna , where he heard strong headwinds from a conservative music theory, namely from Franchino Gaffurio .

Ramos de Pareja wanted to remove the discrepancy between music theory and practice. Since the Ars subtilior at the end of the 14th century, the triad had already become the standard for polyphonic composition. Even before that, Walter Odington , influenced by English practice, had declared the third as a consonant.

The Musica practica also contains important comments on the mensural and chromaticism , they are examples of the current counterpoint and describes musical instruments. Ramos de Pareja was the first to name the Guidonic hand , Manus Guidonis , which had been called Manus musicalis before him . In his Musica practica he repeatedly refers to his own compositions, but only a few of them survived.

He lived in Rome after 1484 and, according to contemporary sources, led a "lascivious" way of life. He can be traced back to 1491. Whether a mention of Giovanni Spataro in 1521 can be interpreted in such a way that he was still alive at that point in time appears uncertain.

Fonts

  • Musica practica , 1482
    • Musica practica. reissued and commented by J. Wolf. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1901 ( limited preview in Google book search)
    • Música práctica. En traducción de José Luis Moralejo, with an introducción de Enrique Sánchez Pedrote. 2nd Edition. Editorial Alpuerto, Madrid 1990 (1977), ISBN 84-381-0008-2 .
    • Musica practica . Commentary and translated by Clement Albin Miller (= Musicological studies and documents, Vol. 44). Hänssler, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7751-1815-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ also Bartolomeo and Ramis .
  2. ^ English translation by Clement A. Miller (American Institute of Musicology, 1999).
  3. ↑ Baltasar Saldoni: Diccionario biográfico-bibliográfico de efemérides de músicos españoles. Volume 1. Dubrull, Madrid 1868, pp. 196–199 ( digitized in the Google book search)
  4. ^ Donald Jay Grout, Claude V. Palisca: A History of Western Music . 8th edition. WW Norton & Co, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-393-93125-9 , p. 159 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  5. ^ Andres Ruiz Tarazona: El "Música práctica", de Ramos Pareja, traducido al castellano [review]. In: El País , August 30, 1977 ( online , accessed September 10, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Ramos de Pareja, Bartolome
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ramis de Pareja, Bartolomeo; Ramis de Pareia, Bartolomeus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish music theorist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1440
PLACE OF BIRTH Baeza
DATE OF DEATH after 1491
Place of death Rome