Adriano Banchieri (

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...

, 3 September 1568 – Bologna, 1634) was an Italian composer,

music theorist Music theory is the study of the practices and possibilities of music. ''The Oxford Companion to Music'' describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory". The first is the " rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (k ...

, organist and

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of the late

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and early Baroque eras. He founded the Accademia dei Floridi in

Biography

He was born and died in Bologna (then in the

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). In 1587 he became a monk of the Benedictine order, taking his vows in 1590, and changing his name to Adriano (from Tommaso). One of his teachers at the monastery was

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, who had a strong influence on his style. Like

Orazio Vecchi Orazio Vecchi (6 December 1550 (baptized) in Modena – 19 February 1605) was an Italian composer of the late Renaissance. He is most famous for his madrigal comedies, particularly ''L'Amfiparnaso''. Life He was born in Modena, an ...

he was interested in converting the

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

to dramatic purposes. Specifically, he was one of the developers of a form called "

madrigal comedy Madrigal comedy is a term for a kind of entertainment music of the late 16th century in Italy, in which groups of related, generally '' a cappella'' madrigals were sung consecutively, generally telling a story, and sometimes having a loose dramatic ...

" — unstaged but dramatic collections of madrigals which, when sung consecutively, told a story. Formerly, madrigal comedy was considered to be one of the important precursors to opera, but most music scholars now see it as a separate development, part of a general interest in Italy at the time in creating musico-dramatic forms. In addition, he was an important composer of

canzonetta In music, a canzonetta (; pl. canzonette, canzonetti or canzonettas) is a popular Italian secular vocal composition that originated around 1560. Earlier versions were somewhat like a madrigal but lighter in style—but by the 18th century, especial ...

s, a lighter and hugely popular alternative to the madrigal in the late 16th century. Banchieri disapproved of the monodists with all their revolutionary harmonic tendencies, about which he expressed himself vigorously in his ''Moderna Practica Musicale'' (1613), while systematizing the legitimate use of the monodic art of

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. In several editions beginning in 1605 (reprinted at least six times before 1638), Banchieri published a series of organ works entitled ''l'Organo suonarino''. Banchieri's last publication was the ''Trattenimenti da villa'' of 1630. Farahat's article concerns itself with the consensus among scholars that Banchieri's madrigal comedies were not intended to be staged but only for concert use, and some evidence that they were so intended; and a few related questions. According to Martha Farahat he wrote five madrigal comedies between 1598 and 1628 with "plot and character development", starting with ''La pazzia senile'' of 1598, the last of them ''La saviezza giovenile''.

Works

Secular vocal works

* Primo libro di Madrigali a 4 voci (Milano, 1597) * 6 Libri di canzonette a 3 voci ** I Libro: (Venezia, 1597) ** II Libro: (Venezia, 1598) ** III Libro: (Milano, 1600) ** IV Libro: (Venezia, 1601) ** V Libro: Op.15 (Milano, 1607); republished as (Venezia, 1628) ** VI Libro: (Venezia, 1614) * (Milano, 1604), first book of madrigals for five voices * ', Op.12 (Libro II madrigali a 5 voci, Venezia, 1605) * , Op. 18 (Libro III madrigali a 5 voci, Venezia, 1608) * , Op. 44 (Libro V madrigali a 5 voci, Venezia, 1622) * (Bologna, 1625) * , Op. 49 (Venezia, 1626) * (Bologna, 1628) * (Libro VI madrigali a 5 voci, Venezia, 1630)

Sacred vocal works

* Vezzo di perle musicali a 2 voci Op 23 (Bologna 1610) * Nuovi pensieri ecclesiastici... ** Libro III Op 35 (1613)

References in modern culture

In 2008, a group of four composers including Lorenzo Ferrero and

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wrote a collaborative composition for organ and orchestra entitled ''Variazioni su un tema di Banchieri'', which was first performed in

on August 2 of that same year.

Media

References

Sources

* Cinzia Zotti, ''Le Sourire du moine: Adriano Banchieri da Bologna; Musicien, homme de lettres, pédagogue, équilibriste sur le fil des querelles du Seicento'', Serre Éditeur, Nice, 2008.

External links

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Adriano Banchieri, biographie de Cinzia Zotti.www.noblessedelasne.org
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''Contraponto bestiale alla mente''
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