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Period: 1567 to
Claudio Monteverdi
He trained in the Renaissance style, also adept at composing “modern” musicand used dissonances in his music (madrigals) for text expression. -
Period: to
Girolamo Frescobaldi
finest organist of the early Baroque era; greatly influenced J.S. Bach. -
Period: to
Francesca Caccini
Soprano and the daughter of Giulio Caccini. She was the first woman to compose operas. -
Dafine
Became the first opera and was composed by Giulio Caccini and Jacopo Peri. -
Opera
Opera was invented in 1600 in Florence, Italy by Giulio Caccini and Jacopo Peri. They wanted to recreate Greek poetry through music. -
Euridice
Became the first extant opera also composed by Caccini and Peri -
Period: to
Barbara Strozzi
Her mother was a servant to Giulio Strozzi who adopted Barbara. She studied under Francesco Cavalli at the Accademia degli Unisoni - that was founded by Giulio for Barbara. -
Teatro de San Cassiano
The first public opera theater that opened in Venice, Italy in 1637. -
Aria
an extended piece for a solo singer that has more elaboration and coherence than recitative. -
The Coronation of Poppea
Monteverdi composed this when he was 75; early operas were based on mythology- but this was historical; premiered in Venice -
L'astratto
translated to "The Distracted One" in Italian; composed by Strozzi and uses basso continuo accompaniment with theorbo and harpsichord.