Pisa, Agostino

AGOSTINO PISAPISA, AGOSTINOAGOSTINO PISA [active early seventeenth century] The practice of beating time suffered from too great a diversity of methods and interpretations in early seventeenth-century Rome. Agostino Pisa, in several publications dating from 1611, attempted to create a more uniform and understandable system by scrutinizing the technique of raising and lowering the hand. In addition to the moments of action (downward and upward), there were moments of repose. Pisa maintained that…