DENTICE. - Name of a Neapolitan family of musicians who lived between the 16th and 17th centuries.

FABRIZIO, a lute virtuoso, composer of music for his instrument and of sacred music, among which Lamentationes a 5 voci, aggiuntovi li responsori, antiphone, benedictus et miserere (Milan 1593); his compositions are in the collection of G. B. Besard, Thesaurus harmonicus, and in that of M. Magnetta, Nuova scelta di madrigali; F. D. is moreover cited by V. Galilei in the Dialogo della musica antica e moderna (Florence 1571), p. 138. LUIGI, theorist and composer. His are Due dialoghi della musica... dell' quali l'uno tratta della theoriae, et l'altro della pratica. Raccolti da diversi autori greci et latini (Rome 1553); two "arias," which are in the collection of R. Rodio da Bari (Naples 1577), and two verses of the Miserere, one for 5 voices, the other for 4, for the Vatican Chapel. SCIPIONE, of the Fathers of the Oratory, a harpsichord virtuoso; he was in Rome in 1593 and died in Naples in 1633. He published 5 books of Madrigali a 5 voci (Naples 1591, 1596, 1598, 1602, 1607), 1 book of Madrigali spirituali a 5 (ibid. 1629) and Mottetti a 5 (ibid. 1594). His compositions are in the collection of G. Ancino and in others of the period.

Bibliography

BIBL.: G. Pannain, Le origini della scuola musicale napoletana, Naples 1914, pp. 32-38 and passim.

Anna Maria Gentili

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