Doni, Giovanni Battista

GIOVANNI BATTISTA DONIDONI, GIOVANNI BATTISTAGIOVANNI BATTISTA DONI [bapt. 1595-† 1647] From the perspective of the seventeenth century, Giovanni Battista Doni studied what was by then a considerable quantity of books and pamphlets relating to Greek music theory. He regarded much of what he read to be ill-founded—particularly the perspectives of GLAREAN and of VICENTINO. Like his illustrious precedessors GALILEI and MEI, Doni sought to inject elements of the ancient tonal system into modern…