Ascanio Mayone
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Ascanio Mayone
(b Naples, c 1565; d there, 9 March 1627). Italian composer. He studied with Nola and was organist (1593) and joint maestro di cappella (1595) of the Annunziata, Naples. In 1602 he joined the Spanish viceroy's chapel as organist. He also played the harp. His keyboard pieces (3 vols., 1603, 1606, 1609) helped pioneer a new ‘Baroque’ keyboard style. A book of five-part madrigals also survives (1604).
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Ascanio Mayone
Ascanio Mayone (ca. 1565 – 1627) was an Neapolitan composer and harpist. He trained as a pupil of Giovanni de Macque in Naples, and worked at Santissima Annunziata there as organist from 1593 and maestro di cappella from 1621; he was also organist at the royal chapel from 1602. He published madrigals, but his main work is his two volumes of keyboard music, Capricci per sonar (1603, 1609). These contain canzonas, toccatas, variations, and arrangements of vocal pieces, many of which are distinctively Baroque rather than sixteenth century in style.
Works
- Il Primo libro di diversi capricci per sonare, Naples, 1603 (modern edition by Christopher Stembridge, Padua, 1981)
- Il primo libro di madrigali, 5 vv, Naples, 1604 (facs. partly damaged)
- Primo libro di ricercari a 3, Naples, 1606, (modern ed. F. Sumner: Italian instrumental music of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries ; vol. 18, Garland Publishing, New York,1995)
- Secondo libro di diversi capricci per sonare, Naples, 1609 (modern edition by Christopher Stembridge, Padua, 1984)
- 2 madrigals in Teatro de madrigali a cinque voci. De diversi eccellentiss. musici napoletani…, Napoli 1609 (facs. partly damaged)
- Messe e vespri, 8vv
- Laetatus sum, 9vv
- Magnificat, 8vv
External links
- Free scores by Ascanio Mayone in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)
- Free scores by Ascanio Mayone at the International Music Score Library Project
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