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ADRIANO BANCHIERI (c. 1557—1634)

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ADRIANO

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BANCHIERI (c. 1557—1634)  , Bolognese composer for
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church and
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stage, organist, writer on
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music and poet . He founded the Accademia
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Florida of
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Bologna . Like
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Orazio Vecchi he was interested in converting the
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madrigal to dramatic purposes . He disapproved of the monodists with all their revolutionary
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harmonic tendencies, about which he expressed himself vigorously in his Moderna Practica Musicale (
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Venice, 1613), while systematizing the legitimate use of the monodic
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art of thorough-
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bass .

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