Florentine Camerata
Camerata de' Bardi

These musicians were known as the Florentine Camerata.

In this they foreshadow the development of monody by the Florentine Camerata later in the century.

Opera originated in Italy in the late 16th century during the time of the Florentine Camerata.

This is directly related to a larger shift in musical aesthetics, again stemming chiefly from the Florentine Camerata.

Count Giovanni de' Bardi, the founder and patron of the Florentine Camerata, also collaborated on these productions.

Giulio Caccini and the Florentine Camerata developed the monody, for solo voice with lute accompaniment, around 1600.

It was written around 1597, largely under the inspiration of an elite circle of literate Florence Humanisms who gathered as the "Florentine Camerata".

The Florentine Camerata: Documentary Studies and Translations (Music Theory Translation Series).

He became friends with Vincenzo Galilei, the father of the astronomer, during the 1570s; whether or not he was a member of the Florentine Camerata is uncertain.

Approximate formation date of the Florentine Camerata, at the salon of Count Giovanni de' Bardi (earliest record is January 14, 1573).

This view goes back to the beginnings of opera by the Florentine Camerata, a group of poets who sought to revive the supposed authentic performance practice of Greek tragedy.

Also, opera was born out of the experimentation of the Florentine Camerata, the creators of monody, who attempted to recreate the theatrical arts of the Ancient Greeks.

(See also: Florentine Camerata, Vincenzo Galilei, Jacopo Peri, Palestrina, Arcangelo Corelli.)

She was active in Florentine literary circles and was a council member of the Florentine Chamber of Poets in the tradition of the Florentine Camerata.

He went on to publish several more works on that topic and became one of the most important scholars on the Italian Ars Nova, Florentine Camerata, and early opera.

In 1998, Balsamo became a council member of the new Consiglio della Camerata dei Poeti, the Chamber of Poets in tradition of the Florentine Camerata.

The prominent member of the Florentine Camerata lived here, as did Claudio Monteverdi, whose opera Orfeo, often cited as the "first opera" was composed for the Timidi music academy.

Their work added to that of the Florentine Camerata of the previous decade, which produced the first experiments in monody, the solo song style over continuo bass which eventually developed into recitative and aria.

He also began a lifelong affinity for the study of the aesthetics of theatre after committing considerable time to the study of the history of opera and opera's aesthetics from the Florentine Camerata to the present.

The first use of recitative in opera was preceded by the monodies of the Florentine Camerata in which Vincenzo Galilei, father of the astronomer Galileo Galilei, played an important role.

He worked closely with the Florentine Camerata, a famous group of people who met at the home of Count Giovanni de' Bardi, and tried to bring the tradition of Greek dramatic music back to life.

In the case of these central Italian rituals, the combination of song, text and drama has been speculated to be one of the origins of Italian opera, born in the workshops of the Florentine Camerata.

The Baroque period in music is associated with the development around 1600 of the figured bass, with dramatic implications in the realm of solo vocal music such as the monodies of the Florentine Camerata and opera.

Girolamo Mei (27 May 1519 - July 1594) was an Italian historian and humanist, famous in music history for providing the intellectual impetus to the Florentine Camerata, which attempted to revive ancient Greek music drama.

Pisa: the city of Pisa hosts the Teatro Verdi, home of the impressive Vincenzo Galileo Choir, named for the great musician of the Florentine Camerata and, incidentally, father of the astronomer Galileo.