Nicola Vicentino

Nicola Vicentino ( Vicenza * 1511, † 1572 in Rome) was an Italian composer and music theorist.

Vicentino studied with Adrian Willaert in Venice and later worked in Ferrara, Rome and Vicenza as Kapellmeister. He was a representative of the musical Renaissance and attempted a revival of the chromatic and enharmonic Tongeschlechts antiquity. He transferred the idea in a free, non- historically faithful manner to the polyphonic music and composed five-part madrigals in a chromatically enriched style, which later took up his classmates at Cyprian de Rore and Willaert Carlo Gesualdo. The ancient enharmonic, which made ​​use of smaller intervals than the semitone, inspired him to design an archi harpsichord with 31 tones per octave, which extended the then Meantone transponierfähig.

Main work

  • Vicentino Nicola L ' antica musica moderna ridotta all prattica, Rome 1555
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