Ascanio Mayone (ca. 1565 – 1627) was a

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composer and harpist. He trained as a pupil of

Giovanni de Macque Giovanni de Macque (Giovanni de Maque, Jean de Macque) (1548/1550 – September 1614) was a Netherlandish composer of the late Renaissance and early Baroque, who spent almost his entire life in Italy. He was one of the most famous Neapolitan compo ...

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, and worked at Santissima Annunziata Maggiore there as organist from 1593 and ''maestro di cappella'' from 1621; he was also organist at the royal chapel from 1602. He published

madrigal A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th c.) and early Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers. The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, and the number o ...

s, but his main work is his two volumes of keyboard music, ''Capricci per sonar'' (1603, 1609). These contain canzonas,

toccatas Toccata (from Italian ''toccare'', literally, "to touch", with "toccata" being the action of touching) is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virt ...

, variations, and arrangements of vocal pieces, many of which are distinctively

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

rather than Renaissance in style.

Works

*''Il Primo libro di diversi capricci per sonare'', Naples, 1603 (modern edition by Christopher Stembridge, Padua, 1981) *''Il primo libro di madrigali'', 5 vv, Naples, 1604 (facs. partly damaged) *''Primo libro di ricercari a 3'', Naples, 1606, (modern ed. F. Sumner: ''Italian instrumental music of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries'' ; vol. 18, Garland Publishing, New York,1995) *''Secondo libro di diversi capricci per sonare'', Naples, 1609 (modern edition by Christopher Stembridge, Padua, 1984) *2 madrigals in ''Teatro de madrigali a cinque voci. De diversi eccellentiss. musici napoletani…'', Naples 1609 (facs. partly damaged) *Messe e vespri, 8vv *Laetatus sum, 9vv *Magnificat, 8vv

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mayone, Ascanio Renaissance composers Italian Baroque composers Italian classical organists Male classical organists 1560s births 1627 deaths 17th-century Italian composers Italian male classical composers 17th-century male musicians