Giandomenico Martoretta (also ''Giandominico'', ''La Martoretta'', ''Il Martoretta'';

Mileto Mileto ( Calabrian: ; grc, Μίλητος, translit=Míletos) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Vibo Valentia in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about south of Vibo Valentia. Mileto is the ...

1515–1560s?) was an Italian Renaissance composer. Little is known of his life, but the style of the dedication of the "master of theology" Giovanfrancesco di Chara in the second book indicates that Martoretta may have been minor gentry or member of an academy. But the preface to the third book of

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 reveals that he had made a pilgrimage to the

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and stayed in

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as guest of a certain noble cavaliere, Piero Singlitico. His first book of madrigals was written in the rapid '' note nere'', black note, style introduced by Constanzo Festa.

Theodor Kroyer Theodor Kroyer (9 September 1873 – 12 January 1945) was a German musicologist. Life Kroyer was born in Munich. After he won his Abitur in 1893 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium (Munich) he studied at the University of Munich and at the Akademie für To ...

(1902) believed that Martoretta's madrigals demonstrated chromatic keys.

Editions

*''Il primo libro di madrigali cromatici a quattro voci'' (1548) Gardano, Venice. *''Il secondo libro di madrigali cromatici a quattro voci'' (1552) edited by Maria Antonella Balsano, Firenze, 1988 (Musiche Rinascimentali Siciliane Vol.11).Series of Renaissance Sicilian composers including Claudio Pari,

Pietro Vinci Pietro Vinci (c. 1525 – after 14 June 1584) was an Italian composer of late Renaissance music. Vinci was born in Nicosia. He was active in Bergamo and then in various Sicilian cities as ''Maestro di cappella''. He published several books of ...

Antonio Il Verso Antonio Il Verso (1565 – August 23, 1621) was an Italian composer. Il Verso was born at Piazza Armerina, and began his musical studies under the guidance of Pietro Vinci. He was active in Venice in the last years of the sixteenth century is giv ...

, Antonio Formica, Tommaso Giglio, Anselmo Fazio, Giovan Pietro Flaccomio, Erasmo Marotta, Sigismondo d'India, Giandomenico Martoretta,

Cataldo Amodei Cataldo Vito Amodei (6 May 1649 13 July 1693) was an Italian composer of the mid-Baroque (music), Baroque period who spent his career in Naples. His cantatas were important predecessors to the active cantata production of 18th-century Naples, a ...

, Bartolomeo Montalbano,

Bonaventura Rubino Fray Bonaventura Rubino (c. 1600–1668) was an Italian composer. According to his publications, his origin of "Montecchio di Lombardia" probably indicates that he was from Montecchio in Darfo Boario Terme, one hour east of Bergamo. He was ''maes ...

, Vincenzo Gallo.

Mario Capuana Mario Capuana (1576 in Sicily – 4 May 1647 in Noto) was an Italian composer of motets and a requiem. He was ''maestro di capella'' at the Cathedral of Noto in the Province of Syracuse from 1628 to his death in 1647. In the years before and imme ...

*''Il terzo libro di madrigali cromatici a quattro voci'' (1554)

References

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