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Giulio Caccini

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Giulio Caccini , c.1546-1618, Italian composer and singer. Both he and Peri composed settings of Ottavio Rinuccini's Euridice (1600), the earliest operas of which the music is extant. Nuove musiche (1601), a collection of his madrigals and arias, is the most important collection among the early examples of monodic style. Author not available, CACCINI, GIULIO. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Giulio Caccini
Giulio Caccini Giulio Caccini (ca. 1545-1618), an Italian...figured bass accompaniment. Giulio Caccini was born in Rome, the son of Michelangelo Caccini. The only musical instruction that Giulio is known to have received... Read more

Giulio Caccini
...whose lost Dafne (1598) was the first opera of all. Caccini's Le nuove musiche (1602), a collection of songs with basso continuo, was of landmark importance in establishing the new monodic style. Giulio Caccini Giulio Caccini Giulio Caccini Read more

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	After nearly 400 years, a composer gets her premiere ; ...its creation. La Liberazione di Ruggiero, by Francesca Caccini, is being hailed as a masterpiece by British early music...Music. Ms Stuttard said that what was surprising about the Caccini opera, which dates from 1625, was its "amazing" quality...behind the times, but in this case she really wasn't." ... Read more
	Galante's soprano soars in American debut ; ...Maria" by the Italian composer Giulio Caccini (1545-1618) was on its way to becoming...favorite. Galante's performance of the Caccini owes nothing to the early-music...baroque grab bag, including the Caccini, in horrible arrangements for piano... Read more
	Cecilia Bartoli at the Wigmore Hall ; ...in celebration of the Wigmore's Centenary. On this occasion she explored the rarely visited 16th- and 17th-world of Giulio Caccini, whose well-chosen group of five songs showed him to be a master of word-setting and arresting melody. Bartoli's voice... Read more
	Sumi Jo ; ...solos, songs by Bellini, Bernstein, Caccini, Donizetti, Faure, Gounod Loewe, Schubert...the earliest selection, an Ave Maria by Giulio Caccini (ca. 1550-1610), one of the pioneer opera...rcurio's updated big-orchestra arrangement of Caccini (think Stokowski and Bach). Jo nevertheless... Read more
	Ex Machina voices engaging `Liberation of Ruggiero'.(NEWS)(Review) ; ...the first opera composed by a woman. Francesca Caccini, daughter of Giulio Caccini, who as a member of the Florentine Camerata had...This is her only opera to have survived. Although Caccini's style shows the influence of Monteverdi, she... Read more
	Need holiday tunes? Pop in one of these ; ...as "Joy to the World" and "The First Noel." And he gives full-bodied presentations of two composers' (J.S. Bach and Giulio Caccini) "Ave Maria" as well as a gorgeous interpretation of Franz Schubert's "Mille Cherubini (in coro)." Didn't catch Tanner... Read more
	LYRIC BREADTH, WARMTH ABOUND IN COUNTERTENOR.(Entertainment)(Review) ; ...which he is justly celebrated, the countertenor offered a series of songs by such 16th- and 17th-century composers as Giulio Caccini, Sigismondo d'India, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Henry Purcell and John Dowland. To each composer, the American-born (Newark... Read more
	Early Music Festival Ends On High Notes ; ...ornamentation and improvisation of that era. Minter artfully employed Renaissance-style ornamentation in music by Giulio Caccini, Marcetto Cara and others, sliding, trilling and quivering his voice around the notes. Minter's improvisations and... Read more
	(book reviews) ; ...del Franciosino, and Francesca Caccini. Among the holdovers from the previous reign were Giulio Caccini and Cristofano Malvezzi. The...his life and career available. Giulio Romolo di Michelangelo Caccini (1551-1618) fills sixty pages... Read more
	Julianne Baird and Konrad Junghaenel ; ...Lament of Ariadne." Virtuosity was the order of the moment in Baird's highly ornamented versions of "Amarilli" by Giulio Caccini and "Jealousy" by Luigi Rossi. Junghaenel, whose lovely accompaniment no doubt contributed to Baird's fine singing... Read more

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