Pietro Aaron ( Italian: Pietro Aaron ), aka Pietro Aronne ( Italian: Pietro Aronne ), or Piero Aron ( Italian: Piero Aron ; circa 1480 , Florence , Florence Republic - after 1545 , Venice , Venetian Republic or Florence, Florence Duchy ) - Italian music theorist . [one]
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| Full name | Pietro Aaron |
| Date of Birth | 1480 |
| Place of Birth | Florence , Florence Republic |
| Date of death | 1540 |
| Place of death | Venice , Republic of Venice |
| A country |  Republic of Venice |
| Professions | music theorist |
| Genres | classical music |
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Biography
Nothing is known about his youth and where he studied music. Judging by the name, he was of Jewish origin. The first information about him dates back to 1516, when he, as a priest in Imola, became the author of a treatise with the traditional title “Fundamentals of Harmony, in Three Books”. The work of Aron was translated into Latin by the humanist Giovanni Antonio Flamino ; in the same year it was published in Bologna.
Using the patronage of Pope Leo X , in 1516 he founded the famous singing school in Rome. Since 1521 he served as bandmaster and regent of the choir in the Imola Cathedral. In 1523 he was a canon in Rimini . In 1529 he received monastic tonsure in the Order of St. John . From 1523 to 1534 he lived in Venice. In 1535 he moved to Padua. From 1536 to 1540 he lived in a monastery in Bergamo, from where he again moved to Venice, where he died in 1545. According to another version, he died in Florence, where he returned from Venice.
He wrote a number of musical and theoretical treatises that caused controversy in musical circles of that time. He owns the famous treatise on the counterpoint "Tuscan about music" ( Italian: Il Toscanello delia musica ), published in Venice in 1523. [2] He wrote his works in Italian . His most recent reference work, A Brief Overview of ... Instructions on ... Music, was published posthumously in Milan in 1547.
Treatises
- “Fundamentals of harmony in three books” ( lat. Libri tres de institutione harmonica , 1516 )
- “Tuscan about music” ( Italian: Toscanello de la musica , 1523 )
- “A treatise on the nature and knowledge of all tones of polyphonic music” ( Italian: Trattato della natura et cognitione di tutti gli tuoni di canto figurato , 1525 )
- “Clarification of some ancient and modern judgments about music” ( Italian: Lucidario in musica di alcune opinione antiche e moderne , 1545 )
- "A brief overview of many questions, secrets and instructions regarding monophonic and polyphonic music" ( Italian Compendiolo di molti dubbi, segreti, et sentenze intorno al canto fermo et figurato , 1547)
Notes
- ↑ Àron, Pietro (Italian) . Enciclopedie on line . Treccani.it.
- ↑ Aaron, Pietro // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
Literature
- Cristle Collins Judd. Reading Renaissance music theory: hearing with the eyes : [ eng ] . - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006 .-- 339 p. - (Cambridge Studies in Music Theory and Analysis). - ISBN 9780521028196 .
Links
- Alfredo Bonaccorsi. Aaron, Pietro . Treccani.it. - Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 1 (1960). (ital.)