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style arriving in the Iberian peninsula. In his writing he was generally contemptuous of Spanish composers, and lavish in his praise of Italians (which may partially account for the abuse heaped on him by Spanish critics). He discusses the previous theoretical treatises of
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were made to be broken, and should be abandoned as soon as a composer had learned his craft: paradoxically, even in the 21st century, no style of composition is taught in a more rigorous, rule-based way than the
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While the treatise shows that he possessed considerable compositional skill, no music by Cerone has survived and he is not known to have published any. He died in Naples.
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El melopeo y maestro: tractado de música theorica y pratica; en que se pone por extenso; lo que uno para hazerse perfecto musico ha menester saber
128:. In 1603 he returned to Naples, where he was a priest and singer until his death. It was in Naples that he wrote his two most famous treatises. 96:. He is most famous for an enormous music treatise he wrote in 1613, which is useful in the studying compositional practices of the 16th century. 124:. He was unusual in being an Italian musician in Spain; far more often in the 16th century, Spanish musicians went to Italy, as in the case of 353: 167:
Cerone was musically conservative, and his conservatism in this influential treatise doubtless had some effect on the delay of the
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achieved considerable notoriety, and was sufficiently famous as late as 1803 to be lampooned by the Spanish novelist
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and others; he describes in detail how a composer can achieve expressive intensity when writing
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Barton Hudson: "Pietro Cerone", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed November 4, 2006),
228:, and other forms of the time. The compositional ideal which he maintained was the style of 374: 369: 8: 148:, which consisted of 22 volumes, 849 chapters, and 1160 pages in the original Spanish. 309: 294: 93: 193: 177: 173: 121: 140:, which he published in 1609. It was a didactic and practical work on singing 363: 286: 168: 233: 185: 181: 308:, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980. 160: 92:(1566–1625) was an Italian music theorist, singer and priest of the late 81: 225: 201: 238: 141: 337: 217: 205: 197: 113: 108:. While Italian, he spent most of his life in Spanish-dominated 105: 221: 109: 323:
New York, W.W. Norton & Co, 1950. Contains a portion of
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Le regole più necessarie per l'introduzione del canto fermo
232:, though curiously he maintained that the "rules" of 361: 306:The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 158:, who compared it to the chivalric romances in 293:. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. 354:International Music Score Library Project 69:Learn how and when to remove this message 16:Italian music theorist, singer and priest 80: 32:This article includes a list of general 362: 136:The first of these, in Italian, was 18: 338:Complete copy of Cerone's treatise 13: 280: 38:it lacks sufficient corresponding 14: 401: 331: 321:Source Readings in Music History. 120:: he did most of his writing in 23: 254: 1: 267: 350:Free scores by Pietro Cerone 304:Article "Pietro Cerone", in 7: 131: 10: 406: 85:Portrait of Pietro Cerone 291:Music in the Renaissance 247: 380:Italian music theorists 99: 53:more precise citations. 385:Musicians from Bergamo 86: 345:World Digital Library 275:(subscription access) 241:idiom of Palestrina. 84: 340:El melopeo y maestro 325:El melopeo y maestro 390:Clergy from Bergamo 104:Cerone was born in 87: 79: 78: 71: 397: 261: 258: 216:, lamentations, 74: 67: 63: 60: 54: 49:this article by 40:inline citations 27: 26: 19: 405: 404: 400: 399: 398: 396: 395: 394: 360: 359: 334: 319:Oliver Strunk, 283: 281:Further reading 270: 265: 264: 259: 255: 250: 156:Antonio Eximeno 134: 116:, and later in 102: 75: 64: 58: 55: 45:Please help to 44: 28: 24: 17: 12: 11: 5: 403: 393: 392: 387: 382: 377: 372: 358: 357: 347: 333: 332:External links 330: 329: 328: 317: 302: 282: 279: 278: 277: 269: 266: 263: 262: 260:Hudson, Grove. 252: 251: 249: 246: 133: 130: 101: 98: 77: 76: 31: 29: 22: 15: 9: 6: 4: 3: 2: 402: 391: 388: 386: 383: 381: 378: 376: 373: 371: 368: 367: 365: 355: 351: 348: 346: 342: 341: 336: 335: 326: 322: 318: 315: 314:1-56159-174-2 311: 307: 303: 300: 299:0-393-09530-4 296: 292: 288: 287:Gustave Reese 285: 284: 276: 272: 271: 257: 253: 245: 242: 240: 235: 231: 227: 223: 219: 215: 211: 207: 203: 199: 195: 191: 187: 183: 179: 175: 170: 165: 163: 162: 157: 153: 149: 147: 143: 139: 129: 127: 123: 119: 115: 111: 107: 97: 95: 91: 90:Pietro Cerone 83: 73: 70: 62: 59:December 2020 52: 48: 42: 41: 35: 30: 21: 20: 339: 324: 320: 305: 290: 256: 243: 234:counterpoint 182:Juan Bermudo 166: 159: 151: 150: 145: 137: 135: 103: 89: 88: 65: 56: 37: 375:1625 deaths 370:1566 births 327:in English. 202:canzonettas 161:Don Quixote 94:Renaissance 51:introducing 364:Categories 268:References 239:polyphonic 230:Palestrina 226:strambotti 218:ricercares 152:El melopeo 34:references 206:canticles 198:frottolas 194:madrigals 178:Vicentino 142:plainsong 132:Writings 126:Victoria 114:Sardinia 356:(IMSLP) 352:at the 343:at the 222:tientos 174:Zarlino 169:Baroque 122:Spanish 106:Bergamo 47:improve 312:  297:  214:psalms 190:motets 186:masses 110:Naples 36:, but 248:Notes 210:hymns 118:Spain 310:ISBN 295:ISBN 100:Life 366:: 289:, 224:, 220:, 212:, 208:, 204:, 200:, 196:, 192:, 188:, 180:, 176:, 112:, 316:. 301:. 72:) 66:( 61:) 57:( 43:.

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