Fabritio Caroso
Composer, Musical Artist
1526 – 1600
Who was Fabritio Caroso?
Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta was an Italian Renaissance dancing master and a composer or transcriber of dance music.
His dance manual Il Ballarino was published in 1581, with a subsequent edition, significantly different, Nobiltà di Dame, printed in 1600 and again after his death in 1630. The work has been published in English as Courtly Dance of the Renaissance by Julia Sutton.
Both manuals have been printed in facsimile edition. Many of the dances of Fabritio Caroso's manuals are meant for two dancers with a few for four or more dancers. These manuals offer a great deal of information to dance historians and musicologists alike in that each description of a dance is accompanied by music examples with lute tablature and directions about how each music example is to be played. Many of the dances also contain dedications to noble women of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
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- Born
- 1526
Sermoneta - Also known as
- Mario Fabrizio Caroso
- Caroso
- Fabrizio Caroso
- Caroso, Fabritio
- Nationality
- Italy
- Profession
- Died
- 1600
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on July 23, 2013
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