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MARKETTO PADUANIAN (Marchetto da Padova) - Italian. musestheorist 13-14 centuries. He lived in Padua (hence the nickname). He served in the courts of Charles II (1289-1309) and Roberto I (1309-43) in Naples. One of the most prominent theorists ars nova. M. P. left two treatises, after. a detailed analysis of the music of his time ("Lucidarium in arte musicae planae", 1317 or 1318; "Pomerium in arte musicae mensuratae", 1321 or 1326). Rejecting cf. dogma, M. P. the first of the muses. Renaissance theorists put forward the criterion of naturalness and harmony, began to talk about the beauty of music (“The ear is the best judge in music,” he wrote). "Lucidarium" consists of 16 chapters and contains a definition of music, its classification, as well as the doctrine of sound. "Pomerium" consists of 3 chapters, which determine the principles of notation, rhythm. measures of sounds (see Menzural notation). Both works of M.P. are fully printed in 1784 in the book: Gerbert M.,“Scriptores ecclesiastici de musica sacra ...”, v. 3.