Nicola Vicentino
Nicola Vicentino (* 1511 in Vicenza , † around 1576 in Milan ) was an Italian composer and music theorist .
Life
Vicentino studied with Adrian Willaert in Venice and later worked as Kapellmeister in Ferrara , Rome and Vicenza. He was a representative of the musical renaissance and tried to revive the chromatic and enharmonic tones of antiquity. However, he transferred the idea to polyphonic music in a free, historically untrue way and composed five-part madrigals in a chromatically enriched style, which his classmate with Willaert Cyprian de Rore and Carlo Gesualdo later took up. The ancient Enharmonik , which used smaller intervals than the semitone, inspired him to construct an archicembalo with 31 notes per octave, which extended the mid-tone tuning of the time so that it could be transposed.
Main work
- Vicentino, Nicola: L 'antica musica ridotta alle moderna prattica , Rome 1555
See also
literature
- Vicentino, Nicola: Henry W. Kaufmann, Robert L. Kendrick. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- Peter Niedermüller: Vicentino, Nicola. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 16 (Strata - Villoteau). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1136-5 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Nicola Vicentino in the International Music Score Library Project
- Nicola Vicentino in the Bavarian Musicians Lexicon Online (BMLO)
- Vicentino's instruments
- Vicentino, Nicola , Enciclopedie on line, treccani.it (Italian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vicentino, Nicola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer and music theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1511 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vicenza |
| DATE OF DEATH | around 1576 |
| Place of death | Milan |