Jacopo da Bologna
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Jacopo da Bologna (fl. 1340 – c. 1386) was an Italian composer of the Trecento, the period sometimes known as the Italian ars nova. He was one of the first composers of this group, making him a contemporary of Gherardello da Firenze and Giovanni 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, and motet.{{sfn|Marrocco|1954|pp=14–6, 27–8}}{{r|GroveDict2001_JacopoDaBo}}
His setting of Non al suo amante, written about 1350, is the only known contemporaneous setting of Petrarch's poetry.{{r|Petrobelli1975|GroveDict2001_JacopoDaBo}}
Jacopo's ideal was "suave dolce melodia" (sweet, gentle melody).{{r|GroveDict2001_JacopoDaBo}} His style is marked by fully texted voice parts that never cross. The untexted passages which connect the textual lines in many of his madrigals are also noteworthy.{{r|Cuthbert2006_192}}
He is well represented in the Squarcialupi Codex, the large collection of 14th-century music long owned by the Medici family; twenty-nine compositions of his are found in that source, the principal source for music of the Italian ars nova, alongside music by Francesco Landini and others.{{sfn|Marrocco|1954|p=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.{{sfn|Fischer|1973}}{{Page needed|date=March 2021}}{{r|GroveDict2001_JacopoDaBo}} However, the identification of Jacopo as the subject of the painting in the latter source was made by a hand later than the manuscript copyist's, throwing some doubt on its reliability.{{sfn|Fischer|1973|p=62}}
In addition to his compositions, Jacopo also wrote a short theoretical treatise, L'arte del biscanto misurato,{{r|JacopoDaBo1933}}{{sfn|Marrocco|1954|pp=146–55}} which is influenced by French notational theory.{{r|GroveDict2001_JacopoDaBo}} 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.{{r|GroveDict2001_JacopoDaBo}}
Selected bibliography
- {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Fischer|1973}}|reference=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.}}
- {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Fischer|1988}}|reference=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.}}
- {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Marrocco|1954}}|reference=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.)}}
- {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Marrocco|1967}}|reference=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: Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre.}}
- {{wikicite|ref={{harvid|Nádas|1985}}|reference=Nádas, John. 1985. "The Transmission of Trecento Secular Polyphony: Manuscript Production and Scribal Practices in Italy at the End of the Middle Ages". Ph.D. diss. New York: New York University.}}
Footnotes
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{{cite book |last1=Fischer |first1=Kurt von |last2=Agostino |first2=Gianluca d' |date=2001 |chapter=Jacopo da Bologna |editor1-last=Sadie |editor1-first=Stanley |editor1-link=Stanley Sadie |editor2-last=Tyrrell |editor2-first=John |editor2-link=John Tyrrell (professor of music) |title=The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians |edition=2nd |location=London |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780195170672}}
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External links
- [http://www.hoasm.org/IIIA/Jacopo.html Jacopo da Bologna].
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