Vincenzo Galilei
Vincenzo Galilei (c. 1520 – 2 July 1591) was an Italian lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and the father of the famous astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei and of the lute virtuoso and composer Michelagnolo Galilei. He was a seminal figure in the musical life of the late Renaissance and contributed significantly to the musical revolution which demarcates the beginning of the Baroque era.
Vincenzo, in his study of pitch and string tension, produced perhaps the first non-linear mathematical description of a natural phenomenon known to history. It was an extension of a Pythagorean tradition but went beyond it. Many scholars credit him with directing the activity of his son away from pure, abstract mathematics and towards experimentation using mathematical quantitative description of the results, a direction of utmost importance for the history of physics and natural science in general.
Biography
He was born around 1520 in Santa Maria a Monte (Tuscany), and began studying the lute at an early age. Sometime before 1562 he moved to Pisa, where he married into a noble family. In 1564 Galileo was born, the first of his either six or seven children; another son, Michelagnolo, born in 1575, who also became an accomplished lutenist and composer.
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Vincenzo Galilei
ALBUMS
- Fronimo released: 1999
Fronimo
Released 1999- Calliope
- Ricercare del primo tuono per b quadro
- Ricercare a quattro voci di B.M.
- Ricercare del secondo tuono per b quadro
- Passemezzo sesto
- Romanesca sesta
- Saltarello sesto
- Polimnia
- Ricercare del settimo tuono per b
- A caso un giorno di Giaches Vuert a 5 voci
- Dianira
- Ricercare del nono tuono per b
- Vestiva i colli a cinque di Giannetto
- Cosi le chiome mie (seconda parte)
- Clio
- Se ben non veggiano gli occhi a 5 voci
- Tanto co' lieti suoni, Claudio da Correggio a 5 voci
- Che i vaghi suoni (seconda parte)
- Fiordiligi
- lo son ferito ahi lasso, a 5 di Giannetto
- Ultimi miei sospiri, a 6 di Verdelotto
- Moravia
- Fantasia seconda, Sopra Anchor che col partire
- Aretusa (I)
- lo mi son giovinetta, a 4 del Fera Bosco
- Aretusa (II)
Died: 1591-07-02
