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Jacopo da Bologna ( floruit|fl. 1340& ndash;c. 1386) was an Italian composer of the Trecento , the period sometimes known as the Music of the Trecento|Italian ars nova . He was one of the first composers of this group, making him a contemporary of Gherardello da Firenze and Giovanni da Cascia|Giovanni da Firenze . He concentrated mainly on Madrigal (Trecento)|madrigal s, including both Canon (music)|canonic (caccia-madrigal) and non-canonic types, but also composed a single example each of a caccia, Laude|lauda - ballata , and motet (Marrocco 1954, 14–16, 27–28; Fischer and d'Agostino 2001).
His setting of Non al suo amante , written about 1350, is the only known contemporaneous setting of Petrarch 's poetry (Petrobelli 1975; Fischer and d'Agostino 2001).
Jacopo's ideal was "suave dolce melodia" (sweet, clean melodies) (Fischer and d'Agostino 2001). His style is marked by fully texted voice parts that never voice crossing|cross . The untexted passages which connect the textual lines in many of his madrigals are also noteworthy (Cuthbert 2006, 192).
He is well-represented in the Squarcialupi Codex , the large collection of 14th century music long owned by the Medici family; twenty-nine compositions of his are found in that source, the principal source for music of the Italian ars nova , alongside music by Francesco Landini and others (Marrocco 1954, 6). A portrait of Jacopo is found in this manuscript, and another possible portrait is found in a north-Italian manuscript, Fulda, Landesbibliothek, Hs. D23, fol. 302 (Fischer 1973; Fischer and d'Agostino 2001). However, the identification of Jacopo as the subject of the painting in the latter source was made by a hand later than the manuscript copyist's, throwing some doubt on its reliability (Fischer 1973, 62).
In addition to his compositions, Jacopo also wrote a short theoretical treatise, ''Questa č l'arte del biscanto misurato'' (Jacopo da Bologna 1933; Marrocco 1954, 146–55), which is influenced by French notational theory (Fischer and d'Agostino 2001). He may also have been active as a poet, to judge from the autobiographical texts of the madrigals Io me sun un che , Oselleto salvazo , and Vestěse la cornachia (Fischer and d'Agostino 2001).
Selected bibliography
Cuthbert, Michael Scott. 2006. "Trecento Fragments and Polyphony Beyond the Codex". Ph.D. diss. Cambridge: Harvard University
Fischer, Kurt von. 1973. "'Portraits' von Piero, Giovanni da Firenze und Jacopo da Bologna in einer Bologneser Handschrift des 14. Jahrhunderts? " Musica Disciplina 27: 61–64.
Fischer, Kurt von. 1988. "Drei unbekannten Werke von Jacopo da Bologna und Bartolino da Padova? " In Miscelánea en homenaje a Monseńor Higinio Anglés . 2 vols. Edited by Miguel Querol, et al., 1:265–81 Barcelona: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 1958-61. Reprinted in Studi musicali 17: 3–14.
Fischer, Kurt von, and Gianluca d'Agostino. 2001. "Jacopo da Bologna". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
Jacopo da Bologna. 1933. ''L' arte del biscanto misurato secondo el Maestro Jacopo da Bologna , edited by Johannes Wolf. Regensburg: Bosse.
Marrocco, W. Thomas. 1954 The Music of Jacopo da Bologna . University of California Publications in Music 5. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954. (Appendix C is an English translation of Jacopo's treatise)
Marrocco, W. Thomas (ed.). 1967. Italian Secular Music, by Magister Piero, Giovanni da Firenze, Jacopo da Bologna . Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century 6. Monaco: Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre .
Nádas, John. 1985. "The Transmission of Trecento Secular Polyphony: Manuscript Production and Scribal Practices in Italy at the End of the Middle Ages". Ph.D. diss. New York: New York University.
Petrobelli, Pierluigi. 1975. "'Un leggiadretto velo' ed altre cose petrarchesche", Rivista Italiana de Musicologia 10:32–45.
External links
http://www.hoasm.org/IIIA/Jacopo.html
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