Giovanni Artusi

He was also a scholar and cleric at the Congregation Santissimo Salvatore, Bologna,[1] and remained throughout his life devoted to his teacher Gioseffo Zarlino (the principal music theorist of the late sixteenth century).

When Vincenzo Galilei first attacked Zarlino in the Dialogo of 1581, it provoked Artusi to defend his teacher and the style he represented.

In 1600 and 1603, Artusi attacked the "crudities" and "license" shown in the works of a composer he initially refused to name (it was Claudio Monteverdi).

Claudio Monteverdi's and his brother's replies, she claims, "can be understood as a defense of the composer's masculinity that acknowledges and reaffirms the femininity of the music itself".

[3] Other academics, such as Ilias Chrissochoidis and Charles S. Brauner, have challenged Cusick's analysis as selective and incomplete: "[A]nyone can project anything to the past for the purpose of legitimising one's own set of values or even fixations".