GALILEI, VINCENZO. - Musician and theorist, father of Galileo, b. in Florence around 1533, d. there at the end of June 1591. A skilled player of the viola and lute, he championed the monodic style and was one of the first and most important members of the Camerata de' Bardi.
He set to music the Dante episode of Count Ugolino and the Lamentations of Jeremiah, composed 2 books of Madrigals for 4 and 5 voices (Venice 1574 and 1587) and Intabulations for the lute (Rome 1563), studied the music of the Greeks and, having discovered the Hymns of Mesomedes, published the Dialogo della musica antica e della moderna (Florence 1581). He waged a bitter polemic against his theory teacher, Gioseffo Zarlino, with a Discorso di V. G. intorno all'opera di messer G. Zorlino ecc. (ibid. 1589) and with a 2nd ed. of the Dialogo (1602). Also of notable importance for the history of music is his Fronimo, dialogo nel quale si contengono le vere e necessarie regole dell'intavolare la musica del liuto (Venice 1568, expanded in 1584), with transcriptions of famous compositions of the 16th century; 3 of his Ricercari (1584) are in Orgel und Klavier by O. Kinkalley (Leipzig 1910, p. 283); 9 pieces for lute are in Lautenspieler des 16. Jahrhunderts by O. Chilesotti (ibid. 1891).
Bibliography2 worksO. Chilesotti, Il 1° libro di liuto di V. G., in Riv. mus. it., 15 (1908), pp. 753-58; id., Di Nicola Vicentina e dei vaneri greci secondo V
BIBL.: O. Chilesotti, Il 1° libro di liuto di V. G., in Riv. mus. it., 15 (1908), pp. 753-58; id., Di Nicola Vicentina e dei vaneri greci secondo V. G., ibid., 19 (1912), pp. 546-63.
Gentili, Anna Maria. “Galilei, vincenzo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, coll. 1880–1881. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/galilei-vincenzo.
MLA
Gentili, Anna Maria. “Galilei, vincenzo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. V, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 1880–1881. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/galilei-vincenzo.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec5_galilei_vincenzo,
author = {Gentili, Anna Maria},
title = {Galilei, vincenzo},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {V},
pages = {1880--1881},
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/galilei-vincenzo}
}
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