Girolamo Dalla Casa

Girolamo Dalla Casa († 1601 ) was an Italian composer , instrumentalist and music writer of the late Renaissance . He belonged to the Venetian School .

Life

It is possible that Girolamo Dalla Casa was born in Udine at the end of the first half of the 16th century . Up until his appearance in Venice there is no life testimony about him, from 1568 he worked as a musician in St. Mark's Basilica , where he founded the first permanent instrumental ensemble with his brothers Giovanni and Nicolò. The surround sound of the Basilica at that time played a central role in the development of multiple choirs . Giovanni Gabrieli wrote much of his music for Dalla Casa's ensemble, which is believed to have performed many of its works. Gabrieli's collaboration with the Dalla Casas could have influenced the formation of the Concertino and Ripieno groups in the Concerto grosso of the following Baroque epoch.

Two madrigal books and a volume with motets by Dalla Casa have survived . His two-volume treatise II vero modo di diminuir con le tutte le sorte di stromenti (1584) on the practice of ornamentation and diminution in the Renaissance is of musical historical interest . It shows that polyphonic music was usually performed without embellishments, homophonic music with more frequent changes of instrumental choirs and more accentuated cadences with embellishments that were not in the musical text.

literature

• II vero modo di diminuir con le tutte le sorte di stromenti . 2 vol. Venice 1584. Facsimile reprint ed. by Giuseppe Vecchi. Bologna 1970

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Girolamo Dalla Casa in the International Music Score Library Project