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BANCHIERI, ADRIANO (c. 1557—1634)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 307 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BANCHIERI, ADRIANO (c. 1557—1634) , Bolognese composer for See also:church and See also:stage, organist, writer on See also:music and poet. He founded the Accademia See also:Florida of See also:Bologna. Like See also:Orazio Vecchi he was interested in converting the See also:madrigal to dramatic purposes. He disapproved of the monodists with all their revolutionary See also:harmonic tendencies, about which he expressed himself vigorously in his Moderna Practica Musicale (See also:Venice, 1613), while systematizing the legitimate use of the monodic See also:art of thorough-See also:bass.

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