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Topic: Nicola Vicentino


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  Nicola Vicentino -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Unbowed, Vicentino continued his experiments, and went on to build the arcicembalo which could play the music he described in his publications.
Whether or not Lusitano ever attempted to refute Vicentino's expanded version is not known; however Vicentino's book was influential with the group of madrigalists working in Ferrara in the next two decades, including (additional info and facts about Luzzasco Luzzaschi) Luzzasco Luzzaschi and (additional info and facts about Carlo Gesualdo) Carlo Gesualdo.
Vicentino's most famous invention was the arcicembalo, a keyboard containing 36 keys to the (A rhythmic group of eight lines of verse) octave.
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