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Diruta, Girolamo

DIRUTA, GEROLAMO

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DIRUTA, GIROLAMO. - Musician, b. in Perugia ca. 1560. The date of his death is unknown. A pupil of Zarlino, A. Gabrieli, Costanzo Porta and C. Merulo, in 1574 he was a Conventual Franciscan, then organist in Venice (1582-93), in Chioggia (1597) and in Gubbio (from 1609); he was an esteemed composer and a distinguished theorist.

He wrote Il Transilvano, a valuable treatise on the manner of playing the organ: the first book that the history of music records in which organ technique is treated independently of that of the harpsichord. It is divided into two parts: 1) Dialogo sopra il vero modo di sonar organi e istromenti da penna (Venice 1597; 2nd ed. ibid. 1612, followed by others); 2) Dialogo, divided into four books, sopra il vero modo e la vera regola d'intavolare canto (ibid. 1609, 2nd ed. ibid. 1622).

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BIBL.: M. Seiffert, Geschichte der Klaviermusik, Leipzig 1899, p. 236 ff.; O. Kinkeldey, Orgel u. Klavier, ibid. 1910, p. 126 ff.

Renzo Bonvicini

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), col. 1735.

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Bonvicini, Renzo. “Diruta, gerolamo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, col. 1735. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/diruta-gerolamo.

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Bonvicini, Renzo. “Diruta, gerolamo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, col. 1735. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/diruta-gerolamo.

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  author    = {Bonvicini, Renzo},
  title     = {Diruta, gerolamo},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IV},
  pages     = {1735},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/diruta-gerolamo}
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