Nicola Vicentino

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Nicola Vicentino at 43

Alias: Don Nicole

Life

Born: 1511, Vincenza, Republic of Venice

Died: 1575 or 1576

Biography

An influential Italian music theorist and composer, and one of the first theorists to fully explore the possibilities of chromaticism and enharmonicism. He published extensive treatise on the subject in 1555, which included several example compositions in the chromatic and enharmonic genera. The enharmonic works in particular utilized an unprecedented microtonal tuning system. According to the title of his first book of madrigals, he was a student of Adrian Willaert.

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List of choral works

 
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Publications

Music

  • Madrigali a cinque voci (Venice, 1546)
  • Moteta cum quinque vocibus liber quartus (Milan, 1571)
  • Madrigali a cinque voci libro quinto (Milan, 1572)

Theory

External links

An introduction to the microtonal tuning system of Nicola Vicentino