Nicolà Vicentino: Musica prisca caput Exaudi

Nicolà Vicentino (15111575, 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. Vicentinos enharmonic genus divides the octave into 31 steps, giving a microtonal scale of 1, 5tones. Musica prisca caput tenebris modo sustulit altis Dulcibus ut numeris priscis certantia factis Facta tua, Ippolite, excelsum super aethera mittat. Ancient music has recently ra