Nicolà Vicentino: Musica prisca caput - Exaudi
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Nicolà Vicentino (1511-1575/6): Musica prisca caput
Madrigal demonstrating the three harmonic genera
Each line of the text is set in a different harmonic ‘genus’ inspired by Ancient Greek music: diatonic, chromatic and enharmonic. Vicentino’s enharmonic genus divides the octave into 31 steps, giving a microtonal scale of 1/5-tones.
Musica prisca caput tenebris modo sustulit altis
Dulcibus ut numeris priscis certantia factis
Facta tua, Ippolite, excelsum super aethera mittat.
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