Giulio Caccini

1. GiulioCaccini • GiulioCaccini (ca. 1545-1618), an Italian singer and an early opera composer, wrote "Le nuovemusiche," the first important and, in the 17th century, most influential publication of the new style of monodic recitative in vocal music with figured bass accompaniment. • GiulioCaccini was born in Rome, the son of Michelangelo Caccini. The only musical instruction that Giulio is known to have received was from Cipione del Palle (or Palla), a noted voice teacher in Rome, and it was as a singer that Caccini first made a name for himself. He was employed at the Medicean court in Florence, principally as a singer, from 1564 to his death on Dec. 10, 1618. He married twice, both wives being voice pupils of his. The first, Lucia, bore him three children: Pompeo, Francesca (called "La Cecchina," also a composer), and Settimia. He had no children by his second wife, Margherita.

2. Giulio life as an composer • In 1589 Caccini took part, as performer and conductor, in the wedding festivities of Ferdinand de' Medici. Three years later, when he visited Rome with Bardi as the later's secretary, Caccini sang some of the songs performed earlier at the Florentine Camerata, several of which he published in Le nuovemusiche (1602). • The music in his time was monophonic and polyphonic. • Monophonic was Music that has 1 melody. • Polyphonic was music that has more than 1.

3. Vocabulary Motet-A polyphonic choral piece of music on a sacred text usually without instrumental accompaniment