Nicola Vicentino
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Nicola Vicentino was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most progressive musicians of the age, inventing, among other things, a microtonal keyboard.
Frontispiece in the Vicentino's treatise on music. Inscriptions: 1 (outer circle) Incerta et occulta scientiae tuae manifestasti mihi; 2 (inner circle) Archicymbali divisionis chromaticique ac enarmonici generis praticae inventor; 3 (under the portrait) Nicolas Vicentinus anno aetatis suae XXXXIIII
Cathedral of Ferrara. Ferrara was the principal center of chromatic experimentation in the second half of the 16th century.
Keyboard of the archicembalo
Musica reservata
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Musica reservata is generally understood as a central style / way of performing music that emerged out of the late Renaissance and early Baroque period that is affiliated with being performed for priv
Nicola Vicentino
…that gained him renown. In the 1550s, in Italy, there was a surge of interest in chromatic composition, some of which was part of the movement known as musica reservata, and some of which was motivated by research into ancient Greek music, including modes and genera. Composers such as Cipriano de Rore, Orlande de Lassus…
Orlando di Lasso: "Carmina Chromatico", Prophesiae Sybillarum