Pietro Paolo Borrono
Pietro Paolo Borrono, or Petro Paulo da Milano or Petter Paul Borrono (born about 1490, Milan - died 1563) was an Italian composer and lutenist of the renaissance.
Pietro Paolo Borrono
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- 1490 · Milan.
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- composer · lutenist
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• 1536 Intabolatura de leuto de diversi autori (Milan: Giovanni Antonio Casteliono), seven of the nineteen pieces in this anthology are by Borrono • 1546 Intabulatura di lauto del divino Francesco da Milano et dell’eccellente Pietro Paulo Borrono da Milano (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), a shared volume, also containing pieces by Francesco Canova da Milano. This is book two of Scotto's ten-volume series of lute tablatures. A German edition of this book was published in 1550 by Rudolf Wissenbach of Zürich. • 1546 Libro secondo di una collanna di Intabolatura di lauto, Antonio Casteliono • 1548 Intavolatura di lauto dell'eccellente Pietro Paolo Borrono da Milano (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), a collection of pavanes. This is book eight of Scotto's ten-volume series of lute tablatures. • 1563 La intabolatura de lauto (Venice: Girolamo Scotto), a collection of dance music
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- 1.François-Joseph Fétis, Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique, deuxième édition, Librairie de Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Compagnie, Paris, 1862, .
- 2.Giovanni Treccani degli Alfieri, Storia di Milano, Volume 9, Fondazione Treccani degli Alfieri per la storia di Milano, 1961, .
- 3.Guitar and Lute Handbook, Schott, 2003, .
- 4.Giuseppe Radole, Liuto, chitarra e vihuela: storia e letteratura, éditeur Suvini Zerboni, 1997, .
- 5.Encyclopédie Treccani
- 6.Lute News: The Lute Society Newsletter - Numéros 77 à 80, Lute Society, 2006, .
- 7.L. S. Olschki, Rivista italiana di musicologia, Volume 21, Societa italiana di musicologia, 1987, .
- 8.Daniel Heartz, Preludes, chansons, and dances for lute, Société de musique d'autrefois, 1964, .
- 9.Hannu Annala, Heiki Mätlik, Handbook of Guitar and Lute Composers, Mel Bay Publications, 2010, .
- 10.Douglas Alton Smith, A history of the lute from antiquity to the Renaissance, Lute Society of America, 2002, .
- 11.Paul O'Dette, 1994, notice du CD Dolcissima et Amorosa de Paul O'Dette
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