Vicentino, Nicola
(1511–1576)
NICOLA VICENTINOVICENTINO, NICOLANICOLA VICENTINO (* 1511-† c. 1576) Though a contemporary of ZARLINO, Nicola Vicentino formulated ideas which brand him as a musical revolutionary and influential advocate of the revitalization of ancient Greek musical tradition. His understanding of the theoretical sources was (as might be expected) deficient, however, and so he produced, perhaps unwittingly, a unique hybrid sort of music which he propagated throughout Italy both in his treatise L'antica musica…