Caccini, Giulio

GIULIO CACCINICACCINI, GIULIOGIULIO CACCINI [* ca. 1545-† 1618] Giulio Caccini, called Giulio Romano, was a prominent member of Bardi's Camerata in Florence and later served as music director at the Medici court. To preserve the novel madrigals and airs which he had composed according to the Camerata's Neoplatonic ideals, Caccini assembled Le nuove musiche (1601). The preface to this important collection of solo songs contains an early defense of the monodic style, an explanation of vocal…