Nicolà Vicentino: Musica prisca caput - Exaudi

Nicolà Vicentino (1511-1575/6): Musica prisca caput Madrigal demonstrating the three harmonic genera Each line of the text is set in a different harmonic ‘genus’ inspired by Ancient Greek music: diatonic, chromatic and enharmonic. Vicentino’s enharmonic genus divides the octave into 31 steps, giving a microtonal scale of 1/5-tones. Musica prisca caput tenebris modo sustulit altis Dulcibus ut numeris priscis certantia factis Facta tua, Ippolite, excelsum super aethera mittat. Ancient music has recently ra