Rocco Rodio
Rocco Rodio (* about 1535 in Bari , † 1607) was an Italian Renaissance - composer and music theorist who especially for his spiritual work and his Ricercare for keyboard instruments is known. He belonged to the Neapolitan school.
biography
Rodio apparently lived a cosmopolitan life, possibly also working at the Polish court and then settling in Naples . Rodio was acquainted with various members of Carlo Gesualdo's Academy in Naples, organized a Camerata di Propaganda per l'Affinamento del Gusto Musicale together with other Neapolitan musicians and probably also maintained connections with Polish and Spanish composers.
Rodio's work, both in music and music theory, was progressive for its time and shows a competent composer. His treatise Regole di musica spread both in Italy and beyond its borders. Rodios Libro primo di ricercate (1575) is the earliest surviving score for keyboard instruments. It contains five ricercare and four fantasies, all of which are characterized by a very individual harmonic language. Together with Antonio Valentes Intavolatura de cimbalo, this print represents the earliest works of the so-called Neapolitan school, which later included important composers such as Ascanio Mayone and Giovanni Maria Trabaci .
List of his work
music
- Missarum decem liber primus , masses for 4-6 voices (Rome, 1562)
- Libro primo di ricercate , for keyboard instruments (Naples, 1575)
- Il secondo libro di madrigali , Madrigals for 4 voices (Venice, 1587)
- Duetti (1589), missing
- Il primo libro di madrigali , lost
- Songs, motets, and other pieces received as manuscripts
Fonts
- Regole di musica di Rocco Rodio sotto brevissime risposte ad alcuni dubij propostigli da un cavaliero, intorno alle varie opinioni de contrapontisti con la dimostratione de tutti i canoni sopra il canto fermo (Napoli, 1600)
literature
- Willi Apel: History of organ and piano music up to 1700. Bärenreiter-Verlag, Kassel Reprint of the 1967 edition. ISBN 9783761816684
- Domenico Antonio D'Alessandro: Rodio, Rocco. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 88: Robusti – Roverella. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2017.
Web links
- Sheet music and audio files by Rocco Rodio in the International Music Score Library Project
- Publications by and about Rocco Rodio in the Opac des Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale (SBN)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rodio, Rocco |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian Renaissance composer and music theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1535 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bari |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1615 |