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Gioseffo Zarlino

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Zarlino's compositions are more conservative in idiom than those of many of his contemporaries. His madrigals avoid the homophonic textures commonly used by other composers, remaining polyphonic throughout, in the manner of his motets. His works were published between 1549 and 1567, and include 41
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in 1558. Zarlino also described the 1/4-comma meantone and 1/3-comma meantone, considering all three temperaments to be usable. In more recent times, these have been approximated by the 50- 31- and 19-tone
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of 1571, he revised the numbering of modes to make the finales of the mode conform to the notes of the natural hexachord. He also wrote a treatise by the name of
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motets, mostly for five and six voices, and 13 secular works, mostly madrigals, for four and five voices. His 10 motets on the
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Atcherson, Walter. “Key and Mode in Seventeenth- Century Music Theory Books.” Journal of Music Theory 17, no. 2 (1973): 210.
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based on proportions within the "Senario" (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) and 8 is a departure from the previously established
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of St. Mark's, one of the most prestigious musical positions in Italy, and held it until his death. While
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may have been the first theorist to describe a version of
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as a means of structuring harmony. His exposition of
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While he was a moderately prolific composer, and his
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Renaissance music
Composers
Transition to Baroque
Burgundian
Franco-Flemish
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English Virginalist
English Madrigal
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Ockeghem
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