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Ruggiero refers to a musical scheme which is at times harmonic and at times melodic. It is seen in 16th and 17th century music, for both vocal and instrumental pieces and improvisations. It most likely comes from reciting formulas used to perform Orlando Furioso, an epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto. The name probably stems from the most set canto from this poem, no. 61, which begins "Ruggier, qual sempre fui, tal esser voglio". Because the melody was so often improvised on, and is inevitably varied in the oral tradition, it is difficult to agree on an exact melody. The harmonic structure, however, has remained relatively unchanged. Harmonically the Ruggiero bass is major, generally in G, and has four short phrases.
This scheme is frequently used for declaiming other texts which use an ottava rima meter.
Ruggiero or Ruggero (pronounced roo-JEH-roh) is the Italian version of the Germanic name Roger and may refer to:
As a Surname
- Adamo Ruggiero (born 1986), Canadian actor
- Angela Ruggiero (born 1980), American hockey player
- Angelo Ruggiero (1941–1989), leader of the New York City Mafia
- Benjamin Ruggiero (1926–1994), member of the New York City Mafia
- Deb Ruggiero (born 1958), radio personality and politician from Rhode Island
- Joseph S. Ruggiero, better known under his stage name Joey Powers (born 1935), American singer and songwriter
- Giuseppe Ruggiero (born 1993) Italian footballer
- Renato Ruggiero (1930–2013), Italian politician
- Richard S. Ruggiero (1944–2014), New York politician
- Salvatore Ruggiero (1930–1982), New York City Mafia associate and older brother of Angelo Ruggiero
- Vic Ruggiero, musician and songwriter from New York City
As a given name
- Ruggiero (character), character in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso
- Roger of Lauria, in Italian known as Ruggero or Ruggiero di Lauria (1245–1305), Italian admiral who was commander of the fleet of Aragon
- Ruggiero Giovannelli (1560–1625), Italian composer of the Renaissance and Baroque eras
- Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857–1919), Italian opera composer
- Ruggiero Ricci (1918–2012), Italian-American violin virtuoso
- Ruggiero Rizzitelli (b. 1967), Italian football who played in Germany
Other
- Torre di Ruggiero, a comune and town in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Italy
- Ruggiero (music), a musical scheme which is at times harmonic and at times melodic
- La liberazione di Ruggiero, a 1625 comic operain by Francesca Caccini
- Ruggiero, an opera by Johann Adolf Hasse (1771)
- Ruggiero, a character in the opera Alcina of Georg Friedrich Händel.
Category:Italian masculine given names
Ruggiero (often translated Rogero in English) is a leading character in the Italian romantic epics Orlando innamorato by Matteo Maria Boiardo and Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto. Ruggiero had originally appeared in the twelfth-century French epic, Aspremont, reworked by Andrea da Barberino as the chivalric romance Aspramonte. In Boiardo and Ariosto's works, he is supposed to be the ancestor of Boiardo and Ariosto's patrons, the Este family of Ferrara, and he plays a major role in the two poems.