Everything about Martin Agricola totally explained
» See Agricola for several other people of the same name.
Martin Agricola (
January 6,
1486 –
June 10,
1556) was a
German composer of
Renaissance music and a music theorist.
He was born in
Schwiebus in
Lower Silesia. His German name was
Sohr or
Sore.
From 1524 until his death he lived at
Magdeburg, where he occupied the post of teacher or cantor in the
Protestant school. The senator and music-printer Rhau, of
Wittenberg, was a close friend of Agricola, whose theoretical works, providing valuable material concerning the change from the old to the new system of notation, he published.
Among Agricola's other theoretical works is
Musica instrumentalis deudsch (1529), a study of
musical instruments, and one of the most important works in early
organology.
Agricola was also the first to harmonize in four parts
Martin Luther's
chorale,
Ein' feste Burg .
Further Information
Get more info on 'Martin Agricola'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://martin_agricola.totallyexplained.com">Martin Agricola Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
