Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja
Bartolomé Ramos de Pareja
By his own testimony at the end of his Musica practica, Ramos de Pareja was born in
Franchino Gaffurio. After a long stay there he moved to Rome
, where he died shortly after 1521.
Ramos de Pareja sought to heal the divide between music in theory and in practice. To this end he sought to render the dissonant thirds and sixths consonant. He proposed the intervals 5/4, 6/5, 5/3, and 8/5 for the division of the monochord, subsequently accepted universally. Less successful was his attempt to replace hexachordal notation with a system of eight syllables denoting the eight sounds of a diatonic scale: psal-li-tur-per-vo-ces-is-tas.
The Musica practica also contains interesting commentary on
musical instruments, and the division of music and its effects. Ramos de Pareja was the first theorist to label the method now known as the Guidonian hand
the manus Guidonis; prior to him it was called the manus musicalis. He chose the title Musica practica to emphasise the practical rather than the theoretical/mathematical component of music. Throughout Ramos de Pareja alludes to his own compositions, though few survive.
Notes
- ^ His given name is sometimes spelled Bartolomeo, his surname Ramis.
- ^ Available in an English translation by Clement A. Miller (American Institute of Musicology, 1993).
- ISBN 0-393-97527-4), p. 148.
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