Top : Arts : Music : Composition : Composers : C :
Caccini, Giulio
Websites
Biographical data, recommended CDs, books and sheet music, bibliography, and link to biographical essay from Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers.
site exerpt
Caccini, Giulio Baroque with canzonets and madrigals. Other Information: Caccini bridges the Renaissance and Baroque eras. His music represents an emphasis on monody (solo vocal music with harmonic accompaniment) instead of the Renaissance ideal of four equal voices in counterpoint. In addition...Brief biography and links from the Classical Composers Database.
http://utopia.knoware.nl/~jsmeets/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=caccinig
Biography noting his influence the vocal "stile recitativo," noted compositions and compilations, and summary list of works from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa.../learning/grove.html?record=1460
List of over thirty art songs with Italian texts, some having English translations.
site exerpt
Giulio Caccini (The Lied and Art Song Texts Page: Texts and Translations to Lieder, Mélodies, Chansons and other Classical Vocal Music) Translators and other volunteers Contact Information Copyright Statement Partial Bibliography Emily's Homepage Emily's Amazon wishlist Please visit Artsconverge, a Lieder-related web-project on which I once did some work. Composer: Giulio Caccini (1546-1618) Alphabetic listing of musical settings [warning not exhaustive...Brief profile.
site exerpt
The Galileo Project Christianity Tommaso Caccini Florence and chose the religious life before he had turned fifteen. Caccini chose the Dominican order and entered the monastery of San Marco. Here, a century earlier, Savanarola had been the prior, and the legacy of this monk's fiery sermons...Biography noting especially his contribution to the theory and style of vocal music from the Here Of A Sunday Morning radio program. Includes links to related material.
site exerpt
HOASM: Giulio Caccini His earliest known compositional endeavor came in 1589, when he contributed a song to an intermediofor the marriage of Duke Ferdinand I. Initially his fame spread chiefly through his singing: by the 1580s he was singing regularly for Ippolito Aldobrandini...Musica Classica Classical Music Dictionary with life, musical style, and MIDI audio file.
site exerpt
- Classical Music Dictionary Free MP3 Italian composer working in Florence, and one of the most important pioneers of the new monody. Indeed, Caccini boasts of having invented the genre himself, although there are some examples prior to his publications entitled Nuove Musiche in 1602 and...