CICONIA, IOHANNES. - Musician and theorist, poet and singer, canon of Padua, but a native of Liège, he was, more than a purely eclectic composer, the most valid representative of the period of conjunction between the Ars nova (v.) and the Italo-Burgundian current that dominated in the first half of the 15th century and that constituted the first period of fifteenth-century polyphony.
He lived in the early 1400s in Padua, where he wrote (1411) his treatise Nova musica in 5 books (of book III, entitled De proportionibus, there are various separate manuscripts); he left many sacred compositions, especially masses, fragments of which are preserved in Modena and in Warsaw as well as in the Trent codices, of elegant and sober style, which, if they do not have the passion that vibrates in his secular songs, nonetheless represent the admirable synthesis of the two national schools of which he was the exponent by birth and by election.
Cervelli, Luisa. “Ciconia, iohannes.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1593. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/ciconia-iohannes.
MLA
Cervelli, Luisa. “Ciconia, iohannes.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1593. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/ciconia-iohannes.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_ciconia_iohannes,
author = {Cervelli, Luisa},
title = {Ciconia, iohannes},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1593},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/ciconia-iohannes}
}
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