- Jacopo da Bologna
Jacopo da Bologna (fl.
1340 –1360 ) was an Italian composer of theTrecento , the period sometimes known as the "Italian ars nova". He was one of the first composers of this group, making him a contemporary ofGherardello da Firenze andGiovanni da Firenze . He concentrated mainly on madrigals, including both canonic (caccia-madrigal) and non-canonic types, but also composed a single example each of a caccia, lauda-ballata , andmotet (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 ofPetrarch '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 cross; and noncanonical writing.Fact|date=April 2008 The untexted passages which connect the textual lines in many of his madrigals are also noteworthy.Fact|date=April 2008
He is well-represented in the
Squarcialupi Codex , the large collection of14th century music long owned by theMedici family; twenty-nine compositions of his are found in that source, the principal source for music of the Italian "ars nova ", alongside music byFrancesco 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 in the latter source was made by a hand later than the copyist's, throwing some doubt on its reliability (Fischer 1973, 62).In addition to his compositions, Jacopo also wrote a short theoretical treatise, "Questa è 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 "Vestìse la cornachia" (Fischer and d'Agostino 2001).
elected bibliography
*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 Monseñor 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: Editions de l'Oiseau-lyre.
*Petrobelli, Pierluigi. 1975. "'Un leggiadretto velo' ed altre cose petrarchesche", "Rivista Italiana de Musicologia" 10:32–45.
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