Pietro Aron
Pietro Aron, also known as Pietro (or Piero) Aaron (c. 1480 – after 1545), was an Italian
Biography
Very little is known about Aron's early life but at least one source claims he may have been Jewish. in Bergamo where he remained until his death.
Aron is known for his treatises on the
Aron was a friend and frequent correspondent of music theorist Giovanni Spataro. Only Spataro's letters to Aron have survived. Topics discussed by the two include contemporary composers and composition, notation, and especially the use of accidentals.
While Aron was known as a composer and frequently refers to his own works in his writings, only one possible composition of his survives, the doubtfully attributed four-voice frottola, "Io non posso piu durare", from Petrucci's Fifth Book of Frottole (1505). Lost works include a Credo setting in six voices, a five-voice Mass, settings of In illo tempore loquente Jesu, Letatus sum, and Da pacem, and other motets and madrigals.[2]
Published works
- Libri tres de institutione harmonica (]
- Thoscanello de la musica (Venice, 1523; four reprints as Toscanello in musica 1525–1562)
- Trattato della natura et cognitione di tutti gli tuoni di canto figurato (Venice, 1525; partially reproduced and retranslated[vague] into English in 1950 in Otto Strunk's Source Readings in Music History, N.Y.[full citation needed])
- Lucidario in musica di alcune opinione antiche e moderne (Venice, 1545)
- Compendiolo di molti dubbi, segreti, et sentenze intorno al canto fermo et figurato (Milan, n.d., probably posthumous, as the title page bears the inscription: "In memoria eterna erit Aron")
References
- ^ Walsh 2001, 1.
- ^ a b Blackburn 2001.
- ^ Bergquist 1964, 24.
Works cited
- Bergquist, Ed Peter, Jr. 1964. "The Theoretical Writings of Pietro Aaron". PhD diss. New York: Columbia University.
- John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
- Walsh, Michael J. (ed.). 2001. Dictionary of Christian Biography. Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press. ISBN 9780826452634.
Further reading
- Bent, Margaret. 1994. "Accidentals, Counterpoint, and Notation in Aaron's Aggiunta to the Toscanello". Journal of Musicology 12:306–44.
- Bergquist, Peter. 1967. "Mode and Polyphony around 1500: Theory and Practice". Music Forum 1:99–161.
- Link, John W., Jr. 1963. Theory and Tuning: Aron's Mean Tone Temperament and Marpurg's Temperament "I". Boston: Tuners Supply Company.
- Powers, Harold. 1992. "Is Mode Real? Pietro Aron, the Octenary System and Polyphony". Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis 16:9–52.
- ISBN 0-393-09530-4
- ISBN 0-02-870270-0.
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