Lodovico Fogliano

Lodovico Fogliano (* date unknown, between around 1470 and 1480 in Modena ; † between 1538 and 1542, place of death unknown) was an Italian music theorist, composer, singer and humanist.

Life

Very little is known about his life. He was the younger brother of the Italian composer and organist Giacomo Fogliano . He was a member of the court orchestra of Duke Ercole I d'Este of Ferrera and in 1493 is known to be a singer in the cathedral choir of Modena. After Josquin Desprez had assumed the position of court conductor in Ferrera, he reappeared in the court orchestra's salary lists in 1503 and 1504. There is also a source according to which L. Fogliano appeared as the singer of the Cappella Giulia at St. Peter in 1513 and 1514 in Rome. Later he seems to have stayed in Venice, where he had his only published composition and his main theoretical work printed. At the end of his life, however, we find him again in Modena, because the publisher Caterino Ferri had given permission to print his rebellious work Refugio de 'dubitanti , which was then probably not published because of his death.

plant

Hardly anything has survived in terms of compositions, especially since only one work, the Quodlibet Fortuna d'un gran tempo , was printed during his lifetime. His main creative interest lay in the theoretical penetration of music, in particular in the definition and arrangement of the sound material. In his main theoretical work Musica theorica (Venice 1529), Fogliano calculates a 14-step scale in which the diatonic scale, as it was later determined by Gioseffo Zarlino , is included and how it can be thought of by applying the second harmonic division to the fifth . In his deliberations, Fogliano referred particularly to the writings of Aristotle and Boethius . Fogliano is known to have translated many of Aristotle's works into Italian. In addition to using the harmonic division of octaves and fifths, Fogliano also played a special role in the human sense of harmony and developed his numerus sonorus , which, however, was no longer used by his theoretical successors such as Zarlino.

Works

• Musica theorica docte simul ac dilucide pertractata: in qua quamplures de harmonicis intervallis: non prius tentatae continentur speculationes. GA Nicolini da Sabbio, Venezia 1529 ( urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10148093-3 ).

literature

• Franco Bruni:  FOGLIANO, Ludovico. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 48:  Filoni-Forghieri. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1997.
• Claude V. Palisca:  Fogliano, Lodovico. In: Friedrich Blume (Hrsg.): The music in past and present (MGG). First edition, Volume 4 (Fede - Singing Pedagogy). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1955, DNB 550439609
• Frieder Rempp:  Fogliano, Lodovico. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 6 (Eames - Franco). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7618-1116-0  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
• G. Roncaglia: In memoria the Lodovico Fogliano nel 4 centenario della morte. In: Atti e memorie della Reale accademia di szience, lettere ed arti die Modena 5/4 , 1939, p. 44 ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Lodovico Fogliano in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bonnie J. Blackburn:  Fogliano [Fogliani], Lodovico. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
• Sheet music and audio files by Lodovico Fogliano in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frieder Rempp: elementary and syntax of Tinctoris to Zarlino. In: Frieder Zaminer (ed.): History of music theory. Volume 6: Hearing, Measuring and Arithmetic in the Early Modern Era. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1987, ISBN 3-534-01206-2 , pp. 39-220.