Johannes Lippius
Illustration — Pastor Johann Lippius (1554–1622) in a 1608 engraving by Jacob van der Heyden Johannes Lippius (24 June 1585 – 24 September 1612) was an Alsatian theologian and music theorist. He coined the term "harmonic triad" in his Synopsis musicae novae (Synopsis of New Music; 1612).
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Johannes Lippius
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Illustration — Pastor Johann Lippius (1554–1622) in a 1608 engraving by Jacob van der Heyden Johannes Lippius (24 June 1585 – 24 September 1612) was an Alsatian theologian and music theorist. He coined the term "harmonic triad" in his Synopsis musicae novae (Synopsis of New Music; 1612).
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Lippius was born in Strasbourg, the son of the pastor of St. Peter, Johann Lippius (1554–1622), and his wife Susanna Klehmann. In early childhood, he had already received education in languages and the seven liberal arts, which allowed him to be appointed at the University of Strasbourg to the Master of Philosophy at a young age. By his twenty-first birthday he had given private and university lectures, after which he entered the University of Leipzig, 1606, the University of Wittenberg, the University of Frankfurt (Oder), the University of Jena, where he became adjunct of the faculty of philosophy, and the University of Erfurt. He died in Speyer, aged 27.
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1585
Johannes Lippius was born on 24 June 1585.
1612
Johannes Lippius died on 24 September 1612.
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- Howard, John Brooks. Form and Method in Johannes Lippius's "Synopsis musicae novae". Journal of the American Musicological Society. 38. 3. 524–550. Autumn 1985. 10.2307/831478.
- Mutch, Caleb. The Triad in Dispute: Johannes Lippius, His Audiences, and the Disputatio Genre. Music Theory Spectrum. 42. 2. 247–259. Fall 2020. 10.1093/mts/mtaa008.
- Rivera, Benito V. German Music Theory in the Early 17th Century: the Treatises of Johannes Lippius. University of Michigan Press. 1979. 978-0-8357-1074-9.
- Rivera, Benito V. The Seventeenth-Century Theory of Triadic Generation and Invertibility and Its Application in Contemporaneous Rules of Composition. Music Theory Spectrum. 6. 63–78. Spring 1984. 10.2307/745803.
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