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| Caccini, Giulio |
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(j ´ly kät-ch ´n ) (KEY) , c.15461618, Italian composer and singer. Both he and Peri composed settings of Ottavio Rinuccinis Euridice (1600), the earliest operas of which the music is extant. Nuove musiche (1601), a collection of his madrigals and arias, is the most important collection among the early examples of monodic style. |
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