Music 1649A/B Lecture Notes - Gioseffo Zarlino, Musical Tuning, Gradus Ad Parnassum
9 Dec 2012
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Musicians once composed with only a few dots or points, hence counterpoint. They placed one point against another how we place a onte against anoter. Two kinds of counterpoint: simple and diminished: simple solely of consonances and equal note values place against one another, diminished has dissonances as well as consonances. Gioseffo zarlino (1517-1590: very famous composer, and music theorist of the renaissance, made large contributions to counterpoint and musical tuning, recognized the primacy of triad over interval as a means of harmonic thinking. Renaissance era is the first art and practice of counterpoint. The music of palestrina (16 century) is thought of as the crowning glory of counterpoint practice: palestrina was also known as the prince of music, palestrina saved music from the church banishing it by creating missa. If he uses a large interval he will reserve that for an important moment.
