Purging Heretics through Music Theory: Gioseffo Zarlino and the

Sopplimenti musicali

Dr. Randall Goldberg

Youngstown State University American Musicological Society

November 11, 2011

Galilei, Dialogo della musica antica, index.

G. M. Artusi, L’arte del contraponto, f.a6v.

Fresco in the Sistine Salon representing buon governo (late 1580s)

Zarlino’s personal crest

Mesolabio

Sopplimenti musicali, contents

Book I basic principles II sound III intervals IV genera V scales VI modes VII mutation VIII melopoeia

Aristoxenian seven parts of harmonics

Christianization of Ruins

Trajan’s Column Column of Marcus Aurelius

Sopplimenti musicali, 251

Sopplimenti musicali, 2

Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Musico prattico (1673)

images of virtue

Bononcini, Musico prattico (1673)

Cesare Ripa, Iconologia (1624)

images of rebellion

Bononcini, Musico prattico (1673)

Cesare Ripa, Iconologia (1624)

Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Musico prattico (1683)