Talk:Giulio Caccini

Cleaning up
I am going to attempt to clean up this article over the next few weeks. Anyone who is watching this page and wants to help, let me know.

I did notice the statement, "...the Camerata developed the concept of monody..." I think that the word "codified" might be a better term. There were several musical forms that were popular in Italy that were very close to monody (such as the frottola). The actual amount of innovation rather than documentation that the camerata (and Caccini) did has been a debated subject. I will dig though my articles and see if I can find the exact sources for the dispute (other than talking to my professors in the halls about it). Jmclark (talk) 11:33, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Caccini Ave Maria
The "Caccini Ave Maria", elaborately scored, either by Nick Ingman or George Brinums, revived by Inessa Galante and sung by Andrea Boccelli, Charlotte Church, et al., is now surely the most familiar music with a Caccini connection. It needs to be dealt with in this article more professionally than I could do. --Wetman (talk) 20:16, 2 July 2008 (UTC)


 * As I know, "Ave Maria" was nor revived, but attributed to Caccini in early 1970's in USSR. First time, when Caccini's name was writen, Irina Arkhipova sing it. Then it was "exported" in Europe by Galante (latvian singer, who knows Arkhipova works very good). It was hoax by Vladimir Vavilov, who cannot publish records by his own name and attributed his works to not very known italian composers or anonymous. So, first time "Ave Maria" appeared on the album "Lute Music of the XVI-XVII centuries" on the Soviet "Melodia" label with the attribution to “Anonymous”. More in Vladimir Vavilov and Inessa Galante pages and there. Sorry for my English. 178.165.100.159 (talk) 00:15, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

I have deleted the statement that the composition of polychoral works would have been alien to Caccini. He lived in a time where polychoral (polyphonic) music was considered normal. He would have received most of his training and done much of his performance work with polyphonic and polychoral music. Caccini did not like polychoral music, however he would have been intimately familiar with it. Jmclark (talk) 02:47, 9 December 2008 (UTC)


 * What I meant was he would have been disinclined to write it. Maybe "alien" was not the best word.  Antandrus  (talk) 02:51, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

Composer project review
I've reviewed this article as part of the Composers project review of its B-class articles. This is a pretty good article, but I expected to read more about how his musical innovations in opera influenced others. That and other issues are in my review on the comments page; questions and comments should be left here or on my talk page.  Magic ♪piano 20:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

Assessment comment
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