Cerreto, Scipione
(1551–1633)
SCIPIONE CERRETOCERRETO, SCIPIONESCIPIONE CERRETO [* ca. 1551-† ca. 1633] For Scipione Cerreto even the absorption of four additional modes (nine through twelve) into the theoretical system was too innovative. The eight ecclesiastical modes were sufficient, he felt, so long as one could transpose them using at most two sharps or flats. His Della prattica musica (1601) contains a detailed account of contrapuntal procedures and their theoretical underpinnings. Like other treatises of the time…