Cerone, Pietro
(1561–1625)
PIETRO CERONECERONE, PIETROPIETRO CERONE (* 1561-† 1625) The controversial »Spanish« theorist Pietro Cerone was Italian, and though he spent around a dozen years in Spain, he was not entirely conversant in the language of his hosts. His concern for preserving and developing the musical art in Spain and the fact that Naples was then under Spanish dominion prompted him to compile a massive summation of sixteenth-century theory in Castilian. Modern scholars have revealed that El melopeo y maestro…