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Giulio Caccini
Whether Caccini, as he himself expressly asseverates in his prefaces, was the inventor of the chordally accompanied solo song, or whether, as recent research has indicated, he was one of the several composers who, in trying to forge a new path in the art of vocal music, came up with similar results, can be hardly be decided today. Long before a new performance style, one modelled an antique music, had begun to be created in the Florentine circles around Giovanni de'Bardi and Jacopo Corsi -- which were later given the much too general name of the Florentine Camerata by music historians -- one had also sung polyphonically composed marginals and canzonettes as solos with instrumental accompaniment whereby the vocal part was elaborately ornamented according to standard diminution models as found documented in didactic treaties. In addition, long before Caccini's first collection of chordally accompanied solo songs appeared with the equally pugnacious as well as programmatic title of "New Music" (Le Nuove Musiche), one had composed and performed this style of song. The "newness" of the music primarily lay in the fact that the instrumental part
Johannes Ciconia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Ciconia
- https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/the-saracen-and-the-dove