Giovanni Artusi

Giovanni Maria Artusi (* around 1540 in Bologna, † August 18, 1613 ) was an Italian music theorist, composer and writer.

Artusi was one of the most famous reactionaries in musical history, which, strictly condemned developed around 1600 new style, which should take the Baroque period. He was both students and clergyman of the religious community of San Salvatore in Bologna, where he spent his entire life which he devoted his teacher Gioseffo Zarlino ( the leading music theorists of the late 16th century ). As Vincenzo Galilei Zarlino attack in the Dialogo of 1581, Artusi defended his teacher and his style.

The most famous episode in Artusi's life and in the history of music criticism occurred in 1600-1603, when he attacked the music of a composer, he refused to name his name (it was Claudio Monteverdi ). Monteverdi replied to the allegations Artusi in the preface to his fifth book of madrigals ( 1605), with the presentation of two styles of music practice, which he called prima pratica and seconda pratica: The prima pratica is the previous polyphonic ideal of the sixteenth century, with its flowing counterpoint, prepared dissonance, and equality of voices. The seconda pratica is the new monodic style, which emphasized the soprano and bass ( basso ) and also represents the beginning of conscious functional tonality.

Artusi left few compositions that are held in a very conservative style: a book with canzonettas for four voices (published in 1598 in Venice) and a " Cantate Domino " for eight voices ( 1599).

Literature (selection )

• Claude Palisca: Giovanni Artusi. In The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. ed Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd.. , 1980, ISBN 1561591742
• Gustave Reese: Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0393095304
• Manfred Bukofzer: Music in the Baroque Era. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1947. ISBN 0393097455
• Giovanni Artusi: L' Artusi, ovvero Delle imperfezioni della moderna musica, tr Oliver Strunk, in Source Readings in Music History. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1950.

• Italian composer
• Composer ( Renaissance )
• Composer ( church music )
• Music theorists
• Person (Bologna)
• Born in the 16th century
• Died in 1613
• Man