Pontio, Pietro
(1532–1595)
PIETRO PONTIOPONTIO, PIETROPIETRO PONTIO [* 1532-† 1595] If, as the brothers MONTEVERDI were to suggest, two separate compositional practices coexisted at the end of the sixteenth century, then certainly books which sustain and clarify the prima prattica were an essential component of the theoretical literature. Unlike ZARLINO's extensive Istitutione harmoniche (1558), wherein practical theory coexists with learned speculative pondering, the two treatises by Pietro Pontio (Ponzio) emphasize…