Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Artusi, Giovanni Maria

by John Weeks Moore

Artusi, Giovanni Maria, a canon of Bologna, published, in 1598, a work called "The Art of Counterpoint," which reduces the precepts of Zarlino into a compendium. In 1503, he gave a continuation of this work, in which he treats more especially of the imperfections of modern music. In 1600 and 1601, he published some further tracts on music. Artusi wished to prove, by extracts from celebrated authors of antiquity, especially from Plato, that the Greeks understood music in parts ; in other words, the rules of counterpoint.