First published in Rome in 1555, Nicola Vicentino's treatise was
one of the most influential music theory texts of the sixteenth
century. This translation by Maria Rika Maniates is the first
English-language edition of Vicentino's important work. Unlike most
early theorists, Vicentino did not simply summarize the practice of
his time. His aim was to change how composers wrote and how
musicians thought about music. His best-known contribution is the
adaptation of the ancient Greek chromatic and enharmonic genera to
modern polyphonic practice. But he also expressed the avant garde's
position on the relation between music and the subject matter and
feelings of a secular or sacred text. He challenged the view that
part-writing had always to conform to the rules of counterpoint,
asserting that license was permissible in order to express the
feelings of a verbal text. In this he anticipated the manifestos of
Vincenzo Galilei and Claudio Monteverdi. Maniates' introduction
discusses Vicentino's life and work, the sources of his ideas in
earlier theoretical literature, and the contemporary humanists from
whom he may have learned..
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