Augusta Campagne , Markus Grassl   The present publication documents a conference held in Bologna in October 2023, organised by the Museo San Colombano – Tagliavini Collection and the Conservatorio di Musica Giovan Battista Martini in collaboration with the Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica Bologna and the mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. This was not …

Performance Practice, Composition, and Notational Formats in Neapolitan Keyboard Music ca. 1600 Ian Pritchard   ‘Partite artificiose sopra il Tenor de Zefiro con alcune Partite approportionate per l’Arpa, havertendo però, che se in questo presente libro stà intitolate alcune cose per l’Arpa, non per questo si soprasedisca il Cimbalo, perche il Cimbalo è Signor di tutti l’istromenti del mondo, & in …

Notational Conventions in Early Sixteenth Century Printed Italian Keyboard Intavolature Augusta Campagne   Introduction The vast majority of extant keyboard music in 16th-century Italy was notated in intavolatura d’organo or intavolatura di cimbalo. Other common methods for the printing of music for keyboard instruments included the use of either partbooks (from 1540 onwards) or open scores (mainly in Naples and …

Between Keyboard Pedagogy and Performance Practice Edoardo Belotti (†)   Foreword For many centuries, composer and performer were very often the same person. Especially for a keyboard player, improvising was the normal way of performing. Very rarely was he requested to perform music composed by others and, when he did that, he played music of his time. The music of …

An Attempt at a Response According to Nicola Vicentino Martin Kirnbauer   This paper was shaped by two major research projects that were carried out at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in the last ten years. The first was ‘Studio31’ with a reconstruction of two keyboard instruments proposed by Nicola Vicentino in his treatise L’antica musica ridotta alla moderna prattica (Rome, …

Protagonists of the Art of the ‘Zimbararo’ in Naples Francesco Nocerino   Homines dum docent discunt. (L.A. Seneca) Born in the second half of the 16th century, Alessandro Fabri lived in an era that witnessed the flourishing of important musical personalities in our culture, and through a combination of rationality and passion, he gave life to masterpieces that still amaze today. …

Protagonists of the Art of the ‘Zimbararo’ in Naples Darryl Martin   It is likely that the majority of keyboard instruments used in England throughout the 16th and 17th centuries were made there. The list of makers, even from as early as the first decades of the 16th century, suggests that the demand could have been met.1 However, there is …

Markus Grassl   Introduction For several decades, musicological research has collected a wealth of individual, often quite detailed information about keyboard instruments and keyboard players at the courts of the Austrian Habsburgs in the early modern period. Besides studies on specific musicians, particularly those who are also known as composers,1 it has been primarily the extensive investigation into the institutional …

Performance of Transgressive Musical Knowledge and Artistic Skill* Jane Hatter   In 1609 the Venetian printer Evangelista Deuchino published a compendium by Pietro Paulo di Ribera (c. 1550–1609), a Spanish-born canon living and working in Venice.1 On the title page Ribera claimed that the volume included accounts of 845 notable and famous women, embracing both ancients and moderns in a wide …