Aquilino Coppini

Aquilino Coppini (died 1629) was an Italian musician and lyricist. While in the service of Cardinal Federico Borromeo, he specialized in creating sacred contrafacta of secular madrigals. His contrafacta are of interest for their concentration on Monteverdi's madrigals (especially the third, fourth and fifth books) and for the form in which he treats the poetic text. According to Antonio Delfino, "rather than simply replacing the original text with a liturgical one, he ‘spiritualized’ then through a careful translation which, like an exercise in rhetorical expertise, reproduces the phonemes, accents and rhythms of the secular text."[1] In a letter to Hendrik van den Putten published in Epistolarum libri sex (1613), Coppini says that "the Monteverdi pieces need longer pauses, resting occasionally, allowing retardation, and at times even pressing on. There is in them a wonderful power to move the passions exceedingly."[2]

Publications
  • Musica tolta da i madrigali di Claudio Monteverde, e d'altri autori … e fatta spirituale, a cinque, et sei voci, Milan, 1607
  • Il secondo libro della musica di Claudio Monteverde, e d'altri autori à 5, Milan, 1608 (lost)
  • Il terzo libro della musica di Claudio Monteverde a cinque voci fatta spirituale da Aquilino Coppini, Milan, 1609
  • Ticinense Gymnasio Artis Oratoriae Regij Imperatoris Epistolarum libri sex, Milan, 1613
gollark: And I don't think it'll be shifted significantly by being able to deal with that kind of rare event much better as much as... blind luck, happening to have had relevant opportunities, social skills and intelligence.
gollark: Evolutionary fitness is also not the same as physical fitness.
gollark: That's plausible I guess, but it's possible that many of those could have been avoided (and your definition would count this as "fitness", even). I'm pretty sure it's still less common than, well, other day to day bad things.
gollark: Are those *common*? I don't think I know anyone who's actually experienced any of those. Except maybe animals, very broadly.
gollark: I mean, most common bad situations are going to be along the lines of "someone was rude to me at work" or "my car broke down", not "I must run away from a thing very fast" or "I have to lift a several hundred kilogram object for some reason".

References
  1. Grove Music Online: Coppini, Aquilino, by Antonio Delfino
  2. STEVENS, Denis: Monteverdi in Venice, page 114


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.