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Gioseffo Zarlino - Essay

Gioseffo Zarlino

Gioseffo Zarlino
Michael Williams
Grambling State University

Gioseffo Zarlino, an Italian composer and music theorist of the Renaissance who, although he was regarded as an impressive composer, the contributions to music theory are what make him famous. His most famous work, Le Istitutione Harmonche, appeared in Venice in 1558. The treatise, divided in four parts, includes theoretical and practical elements of music. The first two parts discuss the philosophical, cosmological and mathematical aspects of music, Greek tonal system and tuning. The third and fourth parts cover the rules of counterpoint and modes. (Zarlino, 1558)
As noted before, the treatise introduced rules for ...

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his previous work and renumbered the church modes. The last of these treatises is Sopplimenti Musicali, written in part as a reply to Galilei's, a former student of his attacks, he proposed for the fretted lute a form of equal temperament, commonly accepted only 2 centuries later. (Williams and Balensuela 241-274) After his death, Zarlino's changes, which were considered radical, and too degree blasphemes to some of his colleagues during his times are merely the status quo today.

Bibliography

Hanning, B. R., & Grout, D. J. (2010). Concise history of western music. (4th ed.). New York: W W Norton & Co Inc.

Williams, David Russell, and C. Matthew Balensuela.Music Theory from Boethius to Zarlino: A Bibliography and Guide. Hillsdale: Pendragon Press, 2007. 241-274. Print.

Zarlino, G. (1558). Le istitutioni harmoniche. Retrieved from ...

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