
| Giovanni Battista Bianco, Musica a due voci. Utilissima per instruir i figliuoli a cantar sicuramente in breve tempo, et commodi per sonar con ogni sorte di strumenti (Giacomo Vincenti, Venice 1610) | RISM: B2607 | |
| 24 duos; among them, five textless duos (chansons), eight motets, and a mass (11 duos). At end, there are three canons a 4 on Latin texts. The print is affected by several misprints: it seems that the composer never read the proofs. |
Upper part-book: «CANTO» Lower part-book: «TENORE» |
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| dedicatees and other people mentioned in this opus | ||||
| Pase Bonci (from Padua) | Dedicatee. Place and date of the dedication: «Venice, 25.09.1610». | |||
| Plutarch | Bianco quotes an aphorism that Plutarch attributed to Traian. | |||
| Trajan | ||||
| literature | ||||
| Bornstein, Italian Duos, vol. I, p. 52, 93-94; vol. II, p. 198-201. | A study of the Italian duo throughout the Renaissance and the Baroque. | |||
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| Title-page | Dedication | Musical Example | Tavola | |||||||||||