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Barbarino, Bartolomeo
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Biography noting his use of Caccini's ideas in his secular and sacred works from the from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa...a/learning/grove.html?record=680
Brief biographical sketch with link to related composers of monody and the vocal concerto from the Here of a Sunday Morning radio program.
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HOASM: Bartolomeo Barbarino Maestro di cappellaat the cathedrals of Pesaro and (from 1605) Parma, he published some church music but is mainly important as one of the earliest and most prolific monodists. His style is often dramatic, with extravagant word painting, but in...