Biography

Giordano Mastrocola is Associate Researcher at the Université de Toulouse II. He was first interested in the relationship between music and poetry in XVIth-Century Italy (his study on Girolamo Vespa’s madrigals was published by Olschki in 2005). Then, he focused on the musical patronage (a monograph on Cardinal Ferdinando de Medici’s court is about to be published). Recently, he has been awarded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche in order to study the practices of polyphonic improvisation in Renaissance music. He authored new studies on Vicente Lusitano, now included in the edition of his manuscript treatise on counterpoint (Brepols, 2013).

Project Summary

This project aims to study the influence of humanism, that is to say of the ideas coming from other disciplines than Music, on the Italian musical treatises (1492-1558), in order to better understand the progressive transformation of the epistemologic status of Music in the Cinquecento, from an art of quadrivium to a a humanistic discipline.