Caccini, Giulio

CACCINI, Giulio, a native of Rome, known also as Giulio Romano, born, according to the preface of his own ‘Nuove Musiche,’ in 1558 or 1560. He learned to sing and play the lute from Scipione della Palla, and in 1578 removed to Florence, where he remained till his death in 1640. Great as a singer he was still greater as a reformer in music. Though neither harmonist nor contrapuntist, it was he who, following the lead of V. Galilei,...