Bononcini, Giovanni Maria
(1642–1678)
GIOVANNI MARIA BONONCINIBONONCINI, GIOVANNI MARIAGIOVANNI MARIA BONONCINI [bapt. 1642-† 1678] Less comprehensive than PENNA's musical treatise of about the same time, but containing more penetrating commentary on the countrapuntal art, Giovanni Maria Bononcini's Musico prattico (1673) was among the late seventeenth century's most popular practical manuals. Its second part, on counterpoint, appeared in a German translation (1701), whose influence was felt in the works of WALTHER (1708) and…