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G. B. Chiodino - Arte pratica di far contrappunto á mente - Book 1, part 1
What are the rules for improvising a good counterpoint?
Here Giovanni Battista Chiodino explains them to us clearly and concisely in his treatise Arte pratica latina et volgare di far contrappunto à mente (Latin and vernacular practical art of counterpoint), Venice 1610.
In this video we read and discuss together about the first six Praecepti, that is, the first six rules of the first book of this work in four books.
Giovanni Battista Chiodini, or Chiodino (Pollenza, 16th century – 1652), was an Italian Franciscan and writer.
Originally from Monte Milone (now Pollenza), he was a conventual friar minor and inquisitor.
He wrote about musical theory (Latin and vernacular practical art of counterpoint, 1610), astronomy and mathematics (Praxis sphaerica clarissima, 1615), theology, philosophy and literature, and also composed poems in Italian and Latin (La nobiltà burghesia romano, 1620 ).
His practical art was translated into German in 1653 by the composer Johann Andreas Herbst.
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