Seconda Pratica

', Italian for "second practice", is the counterpart to (or ) and is sometimes referred to as '. The term first appeared in 1603 in Giovanni Artusi's book (The Second Part of The Artusi, or, Imperfections of Modern Music), where it is attributed to a certain L'Ottuso Accademico. In the first part of The Artusi (1600), Artusi had severely criticized several unpublished madrigals of Claudio Monteverdi. In the second part of this work, L'Ottuso Accademico, whose identity'... meer