A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Spontone, Bartolommeo

by George Grove

SPONTONE, or SPONTONI, Bartolommeo, a madrigal composer, of whom nothing appears to be known beyond the fact that he published three sets of madrigals for five voices at Venice in 1564 (2nd ed. 1583), 1567, and 1583. Others are contained in the collections of Waelrant (1594) and others. Cipriano de Rore prints a Dialogo a 7 by him in 1568. A fine 4-part madrigal of Spontone's, 'The joyous birds,' is given by Mr. Hullah in his Part Music.

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