Girolamo Parabosco (c. 1524 – April 21, 1577), was an Italian writer, composer, organist, and poet of the Renaissance. Events 753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome ( traditional date) A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms A composer (literally meaning 'one who puts together' is a person who creates Music, usually in the medium of notation, for Interpretation and Performance The organ (from Greek όργανον – organon "organ instrument tool" is a Keyboard instrument of one or more divisions each A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose"
He was born in Piacenza, the son of a famous organist, Vincenzo Parabosco. Piacenza ( Placentia in Latin and old-fashioned English, Piasëinsa in the local dialect of Emiliano-Romagnolo) is a Little is known of his childhood, but he went to Venice early for his musical education and is mentioned as a student of Adrian Willaert, the founder of the Venetian School, near the end of 1541. Adrian Willaert (c 1490 &ndash 7 December 1562 was a Flemish Composer of the Renaissance and founder of the Venetian School. In music history the Venetian School is a term used to describe the Composers working in Venice from about 1550 to around 1610; it also describes [1][2] In 1546 he visited Florence as a guest of Francesco Corteccia, musician to the Medici and the leading musician of that city. Florence ( Italian: Firenze Florentia and Fiorenza) is the Capital City of the Italian region of Tuscany Francesco Corteccia ( July 27, 1502 – June 7, 1571) was an Italian composer organist and teacher of the Renaissance. After a period of travels, during which he visited other cities in northern Italy, he returned to Venice and became first organist at St. Mark's, which was at that time becoming one of the most distinguished musical institutions in Italy. Saint Mark's Basilica ( Italian: Basilica di San Marco a Venezia) the Cathedral of Venice, is the most famous of He remained employed by St. Mark's for the rest of his life, and died in Venice in 1577.
He wrote Rime and prose comedies, but he is best known by I Diporti, a collection of stories after the model of Boccaccio's Decameron supposed to be told by a fowling-party weatherbound on an island in the Venetian lagoons. The Decameron (subtitle Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 Novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in
Of his compositions, a book of madrigals for five voices, published in Venice in 1546, remains, as well as four other madrigals published in 1541 and 1544, and some instrumental music. A madrigal is a type of Secular vocal music composition written during the Renaissance and early Baroque eras The style of the madrigals is similar to that of Willaert, but even more densely polyphonic than that of his teacher; they are more akin to motets than to most of the madrigals being written in Italy in the early 1540s. In Western music, motet is a word that is applied to a number of highly varied choral musical compositions One of his instrumental works is a ricercar based on "Da Pacem", the antiphon for peace; it may have been written for the end of the war in 1540 between Venice and the Ottoman Turks. A ricercar (or ricercare recercar; the terms are interchangeable is a type of late Renaissance and mostly early Baroque instrumental composition The Ottoman Turks were the subdivision of the Ottoman Muslim Millet that dominated the ruling class of the Ottoman Empire. [3]
References
- The Humour of Italy, A. Werner
- H. Colin Slim: "Girolamo Parabosco", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed January 3, 2008), (subscription access)
- Alfred Einstein, The Italian Madrigal. Three volumes. Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1949. ISBN 0-691-09112-9
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