Jacopo da Bologna

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Jacopo da Bologna ( bl. 1340 ; † 1386 ?) Was an Italian composer , organist and singer .

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Jacopo da Bologna was an Italian composer of the 14th century, the period that is also referred to in music history as the Italian " ars nova ". He was one of the first composers in this group, which also included his contemporaries Gherardello da Firenze and Francesco Landini . Despite its important role in the Italian music of the 14th century, there are hardly any reliable dates of life. His period of activity began around 1340 at the court of the Visconti . Possibly he lived beyond 1360 (if he is identical to a name bearer in Florence in 1373; 1378 and 1386 a Jacobo de Bolunga and a Jaquet de Bolunya are named as Minister de Salteri at the court in Aragon, Spain).

34 compositions can be ascribed to Jacopo da Bologna with certainty (some are contained in the Squarcialupi Codex ), which mainly concentrated on madrigals , both the canonical ( caccia ) and the non-canonical forms, but a Lauda ballata has also been passed down (Dance song form) and a motet . His madrigal Non al suo amante , written around 1350, is the only known contemporary setting of a Petrarch poem. Jacopo's ideal was the “dolce melodia”.

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literature

  • The New Grove, 2nd edition
  • Kurt von Fischer: Three Unknown Works by Jacopo da Bologna and Bartolino da Padova? In Miscelánea en homenaje a Mons. Higinio Anglés . Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1958–61. vol. 1. pp. 265-81; repr. in Studi muscali . 17. 1988. pp. 3-14.
  • W. Thomas Marrocco: The Music of Jacopo da Bologna . University of California Publ.in: Music 5. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954.
  • W. Thomas Marrocco: (Ed.) Italian Secular Music, by Magister Piero, Giovanni da Firenze, Jacopo da Bologna. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century 6. Monaco: Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre, 1967.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marrocco 1954, pp. 14-16, 27-28; Fischer and d'Agostino 2001
  2. ↑ Petrobelli 1975; Fischer and d'Agostino 2001
  3. ^ Fischer and d 'Agostino 2001
personal data
SURNAME Jacopo da Bologna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobus de Bononia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer, organist and singer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1340
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1386