Lusitano, Vicente

VICENTE LUSITANOLUSITANO, VICENTEVICENTE LUSITANO (Sixteenth Century) The dispute between the Portuguese Vicente Lusitano and the Italian Nicola VICENTINO concerning the application of Greek genera to more recent music led to a public dispute settled in Rome during June, 1551. Lusitano advocated the conservative position that music was diatonic unless two consecutive semitones (chromatic genus) or enharmonic dieses (enharmonic genus) were present. VICENTINO sought—unsuccessfully as far as the…