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Bicinium

In music of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras, a bicinium (pl. bicinia) was a composition for only two parts, especially one for the purpose of teaching counterpoint or singing. The term has had

Further reading#

  • Articles “bicinium,” “tricinium” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1980.
  • Wendelin Bitzan, Never-ending Canon. Didactical Approaches to Two-part Imitational Passages from Josquin’s Masses, in: Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale, Vol. 19, No. 2/2013, p. 111-118.
  • Andrea Bornstein, Two-Part Italian Didactic Music: Printed Collections of the Renaissance and Baroque (1521-1744). 3 vols (Ut Orpheus Edizioni, Bologna 2004). — A study of the Italian duo throughout the Renaissance and the Baroque.
    • Didactic two-part compositions of the Renaissance and the Baroque A large site dedicated to bicinia, includes lists of composers and works, scores and an extensive bibliography.
Genre family
Baroque music, Renaissance music
Region
Europe