BANCHIERI, ADRIANO (c. Bolognese com poser for church and stage, organist, writer on music and poet. He founded the Accademia Florida of Bologna. Like Orazio Vecchi he was interested in converting the madrigal to dramatic purposes. He disapproved of the monodists with their revolution ary harmonic tendencies, about which he expressed himself vig orously in his Modern Practica Musicale published at Venice in 1613, while systematizing the use of the monodic art of thorough bass.