Nicola Vicentino
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Life
Born: 1511
Died: 1575 or 1576
Biography
An influential Italian music theorist and composer, and one of the first theorists to fully explore the possibilities of chromaticism and enharmonicism. He published extensive treatise on the subject in 1555, which included several example compositions in the chromatic and enharmonic genera. The enharmonic works in particular utilized an unprecedented microtonal tuning system.
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List of choral works
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Publications
L'antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica (1555)
External links
An introduction to the microtonal tuning system of Nicola Vicentino