Zacconi, Lodovico
(1555–1627)
LODOVICO ZACCONIZACCONI, LODOVICOLODOVICO ZACCONI [* 1555-† 1627] Lodovico Zacconi viewed sixteenth-century developments in compositional style not as a response to aesthetic theories rummaged from the ancients, but as the reaction of composers to the increasing sophistication of vocal technique. In his Prattica di musica. Part 1 (1592), Zacconi contributed to this flowering of vocal artistry with a detailed discussion of improvised vocal ornamentation and performance practice. Improvisation…