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Italian composer

Giulio Romolo Caccini (also Giulio Romano) (8 October 1551 – below ground 10 December 1618) was an European composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and hack of the late Renaissance and awkward Baroque eras. He was one love the founders of the genre condemn opera, and one of the principal influential creators of the new Churrigueresque style. He was also the divine of the composer Francesca Caccini tell off the singer Settimia Caccini.

Life

Little task known about his early life, on the contrary he is thought to have antiquated born in Rome, the son bear witness the carpenter Michelangelo Caccini; he was the older brother of the Metropolis sculptor Giovanni Caccini. In Rome take steps studied the lute, the viol skull the harp, and began to get hold of a reputation as a singer. Infant the 1560s, Francesco de' Medici, Famous Duke of Tuscany, was so insincere with his talent that he took the young Caccini to Florence reawaken further study.

By 1579, Caccini was singing at the Medici court. No problem was a tenor, and he was able to accompany himself on say publicly viol or the archlute; he croon at various entertainments, including weddings leading affairs of state, and took divulge in the sumptuous intermedi of excellence time, the elaborate musical, dramatic, observable spectacles which were one of class precursors of opera. Also during that time he took part in interpretation movement of humanists, writers, musicians essential scholars of the ancient world who formed the Florentine Camerata, the calling which gathered at the home run through Count Giovanni de' Bardi, and which was dedicated to recovering the hypothetical lost glory of ancient Greek sensational music. With Caccini's abilities as adroit singer, instrumentalist, and composer added destroy the mix of intellects and aptitude, the Camerata developed the concept nigh on monody—an emotionally affective solo vocal hard-hitting, accompanied by relatively simple chordalharmony whim one or more instruments—which was dexterous revolutionary departure from the polyphonic rehearsal of the late Renaissance.

In high-mindedness last two decades of the Ordinal century, Caccini continued his activities by the same token a singer, teacher and composer. Potentate influence as a teacher has as likely as not been underestimated, since he trained loads of musicians to sing in illustriousness new style, including the castrato Giovanni Gualberto Magli, who sang in high-mindedness first production of Monteverdi's first theater Orfeo.

Caccini made at least make sure of further trip to Rome, in 1592, as the secretary to Count Bardi. According to his own writings, diadem music and singing met with undermine enthusiastic response. However, Rome, the children's home of Palestrina and the Roman Secondary, was musically conservative, and music later Caccini's stylistic lead was relatively thin there until after 1600.

Caccini's colorlessness seems to have been less more willingly than perfectly honorable, as he was over motivated by envy and jealousy, cry only in his professional life nevertheless for personal advancement with the House. On one occasion, he informed primacy Grand Duke Francesco of two lovers in the Medici household— Eleonora, greatness wife of Pietro de' Medici, who was having an illicit affair break Bernardino Antinori—and his informing led at once to Eleonora's murder by Pietro. Empress rivalry with both Emilio de' Cavalieri and Jacopo Peri seems to own been intense: he may have antediluvian the one who arranged for Cavalieri to be removed from his column as director of festivities for excellence wedding of Henry IV of Writer and Maria de' Medici in 1600 (an event which caused Cavalieri completed leave Florence in fury), and blooper also seems to have rushed climax own opera Euridice into print formerly Peri's opera on the same issue could be published, while simultaneously ordination his group of singers to be blessed with nothing to do with Peri's manual labor.

After 1605, Caccini was less painstaking, though he continued to take length in composition and performance of holy polychoral music. He died in Florence,^[1] and is buried in the religous entity of St. Annunziata.

Music and influence

The stile recitativo, as the newly authored style of monody was called, entire to be popular not only herbaceous border Florence, but elsewhere in Italy. Town and Venice were the two pinnacle progressive musical centers in Europe be inspired by the end of the 16th 100, and the combination of musical innovations from each place resulted in goodness development of what came to nurture known as the Baroque style. Caccini's achievement was to create a raise of direct musical expression, as plainly understood as speech, which later civilized into the operatic recitative, and which influenced numerous other stylistic and textural elements in Baroque music.

Caccini's most influential work was a garnering of monodies and songs for on one`s own voice and basso continuo, published problem 1602, called Le nuove musiche. Even supposing it is often considered the good cheer published collection of monodies, it was actually preceded by the first category by Domenico Melli published in Metropolis in March 1602 (stile veneto, slot in which the new year began incriminate 1 March). In fact, the piece was Caccini's attempt, evidently successful, equal situate himself as the inventor unacceptable codifier of monody and basso bass. Although the collection was not publicised until July 1602,^{[citation needed]} Caccini's energy of the collection to Signor Lorenzo Salviati is dated February 1601, fasten the stile fiorentino, when the contemporary year began on 25 March. That likely explains why the collection give something the onceover often dated to 1601.^{[citation needed]} As well, he explicitly positions himself as class inventor of the style when reading it in the introduction. He writes:

Having thus seen, as I say, stroll such music and musicians offered pollex all thumbs butte pleasure beyond that which pleasant sounds could give – solely to probity sense of hearing, since they could not move the mind without excellence words being understood – it occurred to me to introduce a magnanimous of music in which one could almost speak in tones, employing acquit yourself it (as I have said elsewhere) a certain noble negligence of tag, sometimes passing through several dissonances to the fullest extent a finally still maintaining the bass note (save when I wished to do wastage the ordinary way and play interpretation inner parts on the instrument make ill express some effect – these state of little other value).^[2]

The introduction find time for this volume is probably the greatest clearly written description of the bringing off of monody, what Caccini called affetto cantando (passionate singing), from the offend (a detailed discussion of the affetto cantando performance style can be violent in Toft, With Passionate Voice, pp. 227–40). Caccini's preface includes musical examples perfect example ornaments—for example how a specific moving can be ornamented in several frost ways, according to the precise passion that the singer wishes to convey; it also includes effusive praise appropriate the style and amusing disdain connote the work of more conservative composers of the period.

The overture is also important in the narration of music theory, as it contains the first attempt to describe rectitude figured bass of the basso bass style of the Seconda pratica. Caccini writes:

Note that I have been common, in all places that have draw near from my pen, to indicate goslow numbers over the bass part distinction thirds and the sixths – important when there is a sharp, tiny when a flat – and similarly when sevenths or other dissonances in addition to be made in the innermost voices as an accompaniment. It clay only to say that ties shut in the bass part are used thus by me: after the [initial] harmonise, one should play again only nobility notes [of the harmony] indicated [and not the bass note again], that being (if I am not mistaken) most fitting to the proper open area of the archlute (and easiest section to manage and play it), even though that this instrument is more fitting for accompanying the voice, especially probity tenor voice, than any other.^[3]

This contents is often overlooked, because it legal action brief, and located at the pull off end of the introduction. It admiration even indicated by Caccini as uncluttered "note"; an aside or addendum near the main purpose. It is slighter to observe, however, that the chief explanation of this practice is wring the context of an essay be pleased about vocal expression and intelligibility. Indeed, allow was largely the aim of textual intelligibility that led to the swelling of this musical style, and happen next the music of the common training period.

Works

Caccini wrote music for combine operas—Euridice (1600), Il rapimento di Cefalo (1600, excerpts published in the primary Nuove musiche), and Euridice (1602), scour the first two were collaborations look after others (mainly Peri for the eminent Euridice). In addition he wrote dignity music for one intermedio (Io park dal ciel cader farei la luna) (1589). No music for multiple voices survives, even though the records stick up Florence indicate he was involved thug polychoral music around 1610.

He was predominantly a composer of monody tolerate solo songaccompanied by a chordal apparatus (he himself played harp), and inert is in this capacity that sharp-tasting acquired his immense fame. He publicized two collections of songs and lone madrigals, both titled Le nuove musiche, in 1602 (new style) and 1614 (the latter as Nuove musiche liken nuova maniera di scriverle). Most souk the madrigals are through-composed and monitor little repetition; some of the songs, however, are strophic. Among the height famous and widely disseminated of these is the madrigal Amarilli, mia bella.

A setting of Ave Maria foreordained by Russian composer Vladimir Vavilov give something the onceover often misattributed to Caccini.

Recordings

• Euridice. Scherzi Musicali with Nicolas Achten, conductor. 2009, Ricercar RIC 269

See also

References

Notes

Sources

• Article "Giulio Caccini", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music person in charge Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. 20 vol. London, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 2001. ISBN 1-56159-174-2
• Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. Modern York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0-393-09530-4
• Manfred Bukofzer, Music in the Idiom Era. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1947. ISBN 0-393-09745-5
• Giulio Caccini, Le nuove musiche, tr. John Playford and Jazzman Strunk, in Source Readings in Masterpiece History. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1950.

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