Contemporary aesthetic and musical theories

Question 1

Feldman quotation

Answer 1

‘Like Tomitano and other writers on language, theorists of music in mid-century Venice were trying harder and harder to forge the link between language and sound.’

Question 2

Preliminary attempt

Answer 2

Giovanni Del Lago - Breve introduttione di musica misurata - 1540

Question 3

Major attempt

Answer 3

Zarlino - Istitutioni harmoniche - 1558

Question 4

Bernadino Tomitano - treatise and date

Answer 4

Ragionamenti delle lingua Toscana - 1545

Question 5

Bernadino Daniello - treatise and date

Answer 5

La Poetica - 1536

Question 6

Lodivico Dolce - treatise and date

Answer 6

Osservationi nella volgar lingua - 1550

Question 7

Francesco Sansovino - treatise and date

Answer 7

Arte oratoria - 1546

Question 8

Lubrunio and Fortunio treatise dates

Answer 8

1513 and 1516

Question 9

Zarlino quotation - application of Bembo’s theories to music

Answer 9

“when any of the words expresses complaint, sorrow, grief, sighs, tears, and other such things, the harmony should be full of sadness”