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Vincenzo Galilei
12+ albums
renaissanceClassicalearly musicacousticItaly
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Vincenzo Galilei (c. 1520 – July 2, 1591) was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and the father of the famous astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei. He was a seminal figure in the musical life of the late Renaissance, and contributed significantly to the musical revolution which demarcates the beginning of the Baroque era. He was born around 1520 in Santa Maria a Monte (Tuscany), and began studying the lute at an early age. Sometime before 1562 he moved to Pisa, where he married into a noble family. In 1564 Galileo was born, the first of his either six or seven children; another son, Michelagnolo, born in 1575, also turned out to be an accomplished lutenist. Vincenzo was a skilled player of the lute, and early in life attracted the attention of powerful, well-connected patrons. In 1563 he met Gioseffo Zarlino, the most important music theorist of the sixteenth century, in Venice, and began studying with him. Somewhat later he became interested in the attempts to revive ancient Greek music and drama, by way of his association with the Florentine Camerata (a group of poets, musicians and intellectuals led by Count Giovanni de' Bardi) as well as his contacts with Girolamo Mei, the foremost scholar of the time of ancient Greek music. Sometime in the 1570s his interests in music theory, as well as his composition, began to move in this direction. Some of Galilei's most important theoretical contributions involve the treatment of dissonance: he had a largely mo
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Fronimo: Ricercare del primo tuono
2,3952Duo tutti di fantasia
616326 Ricercares: No. 26, Altro ricercare del duodecimo tono per B molle
5244Contrapunto Primo di B.M.
508526 Ricercares: No. 10, Ricercare del decimo tono per duro
4956Fronimo: Saltarello sesto
417726 Ricercares: No. 3, Ricercare del terzo tono per duro
331826 Ricercares: No. 14, Ricercare del secondo tono per B molle
320926 Ricercares: No. 21, Ricercare del nono tono per B molle
30110Contrappunto Primo B.M.
290albums
Galilei: Fronimo (Dialogo sopra l'arte del bene intavolare et rettamente sonare la musica)
Fronimo
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Galilei: Fronimo / Contrappunti / Intavolatura Di Liuto
Vincenzo Galilei: Fronimo (Dialogo sopra l'arte del bene intavolare et rettamente sonare la musica)
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Galilei: Fronimo - Contrappunti - Intavolatura di liuto
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Lute Music
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The Art of Segovia, Vol. 3 (1955-1956)
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Striggio: Mass in 40 Parts
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Music for a Tudor Court
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Songs and Dances for Lute
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Christmas Meditation
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Galilei: Intavolatura di liuto