Adriano Banchieri (

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

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ist and

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of the late

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and early

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eras. He founded the

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Biography

He was born and died in Bologna (then in the

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). In 1587 he became a monk of the

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, taking his vows in 1590, and changing his name to Adriano (from Tommaso). One of his teachers at the monastery was

Gioseffo Guami Gioseffo Guami (27 January 1542 – 1611) (Gioseffo Giuseppe Guami or Gioseffo da Lucca) was an Italian composer, organist, violinist and singer of the late Renaissance Venetian School. He was a prolific composer of madrigals and instrumental mu ...

, who had a strong influence on his style. Like Orazio Vecchi he was interested in converting the

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to dramatic purposes. Specifically, he was one of the developers of a form called " madrigal comedy" — 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 canzonettas, a lighter and hugely popular alternative to the madrigal in the late 16th century. Banchieri disapproved of the monodists with all their revolutionary

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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

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 Lorenzo Ferrero (; born 1951) is an Italian composer, librettist, author, and book editor. He started composing at an early age and has written over a hundred compositions thus far, including twelve operas, three ballets, and numerous orchestral ...

and Bryan Johanson 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

*
Adriano Banchieri, biographie de Cinzia Zotti.www.noblessedelasne.org
* * *
''Contraponto bestiale alla mente''
(PDF - original version at classicaland.com) * Original texts o

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