Fabrizio Dentice (also Fabricio, Fabritio) (1539 in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

– 24 February 1581 in

) was an Italian composer and virtuoso lute and

viol The viol (), viola da gamba (), or informally gamba, is any one of a family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension on the strings can be increased or decreased to adjust the pitc ...

player. Fabrizio was the son of

Luigi Dentice Luigi Dentice (1510 in Naples – 1566 in Naples) was an Italian composer, musical theorist, singer and lutenist who served the powerful Sanseverino family, and was father of Fabrizio Dentice (1539 – 1581), also a composer and lutenist. He was ...

(1510–1566) who served the powerful

Sanseverino * Sanseverino (family): The Sanseverino are one of the historical families most famous in the Kingdom of Naples and all of Italy, having 300 strongholds, 40 counties, nine marquisates, twelve duchies and ten principalities primarily distributed in ...

family and had a great reputation as a singer and lutenist.T. Crawford, "Lute counterpoint from Naples" in ''Early Music,'' Oxford Journals 2006 Fabrizio was also uncle to the harpsichordist

Scipione Dentice Scipione Dentice (29 January 1560 – 21 April 1633) was a Neapolitan keyboard composer. He is to be distinguished from his colleague and exact contemporary Scipione Stella, a member of Carlo Gesualdo's circle. He is also to be distinguished ...

(1560–1633).

Musical Editions

Dinko Fabris Dinko Fabris is an Italian musicologist. He specializes in lute music, the music of Naples, and Italian music in general, having written books on Italian composers such as Andrea Falconieri, Andrea Gabrieli, Francesco Provenzale and Francesco C ...

. ''Da Napoli a Parma: itinerari d'un musicista aristocratico. Opera vocali di Fabrizio Dentice, 15630ca-1580.'' Rome and Milan: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, 1998. *

and John Griffiths (eds). ''Neapolitan Lute Music: Fabrizio Dentice, Giulio Severino, Giovanni Antonio Severino, Francesco Cardone.'' Recent Researches in Music of the Renaissance 140. Madison: A-R Editions, 2004. (Includes all Dentice's known lute music including doubtful ascriptions)

Selected discography

Vocal works: *De Lamentatione Hieremiae on ''Italia Mia, Musical Imagination of the Renaissance''.

Huelgas Ensemble The Huelgas Ensemble is a Belgian early music group formed by the Flemish conductor Paul Van Nevel in 1971. The group's performance and extensive discography focuses on Renaissance polyphony. The name of the ensemble refers to a manuscript of pol ...

Paul Van Nevel Paul Van Nevel (born 4 February 1946) is a Belgian conductor, musicologist and art historian. In 1971 he founded the Huelgas Ensemble, a choir dedicated to polyphony from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Van Nevel is known for hunting out li ...

Philippe Verdelot Philippe Verdelot (1480 to 1485–1530 to 1540) was a French composer of the Renaissance, who spent most of his life in Italy. He is commonly considered to be the father of the Italian madrigal, and certainly was one of its earliest and most prol ...

, et al. Sony 1992. *Miserere. on

Emilio de Cavalieri Emilio de' Cavalieri (c. 155011 March 1602), or Emilio dei Cavalieri, the spellings "del" and "Cavaliere" are contemporary typographical errors, was an Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of ...

Lamentations. Le Poème Harmonique dir. Vincent Dumestre, Alpha 2002 *Versetti del Miserere, in falsibordoni del Dentice passeggiati da Donatello Coya eunuco della Real Capella (1622) '54"on ''Magnificat anima mea. Il Culto Mariano e l'Oratorio Filippino nella Napoli del'600.'' Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini Symphonia 1996 Instrumental: *2 lute pieces, (with songs by father

- Come t'haggio lassata, o via mia? Chi me l'havesse dett', o via mia?) on ''Napolitane -

villanelle A villanelle, also known as villanesque,Kastner 1903 p. 279 is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet rep ...

, arie & moresche (1530-70)''. Ensemble Micrologus, Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini dir. Florio, Opus111 1999 *''The Siena Lute Book'' Jacob Heringman Avie-AV0036 2004

References

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