Agazzari, Agostino
(1578–1640)
AGOSTINO AGAZZARIAGAZZARI, AGOSTINOAGOSTINO AGAZZARI [* 1578-† ca. 1640] The emergence of an alternative to the sixteenth-century church style brought into being the new continuo practice. Accompaniments were more transparent and thus could be improvised rather than laboriously notated in tablature or score, thereby saving paper, ink, and shelf space in the process. Agostino Agazzari commented on these changes in style and supplied, in his Del sonare sopra'l basso (1607), a useful set of…