Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

5 Giulio Caccini, preface to Le nuove musiche (1601), ed. Angelo Solerti, in Le origini del melodrama: Testimonianze dei
contemporanei (Turin: Fratelli Bocca, 1903), p. 56, trans. Piero Weiss in Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin, Music in the Western
World: A History in Documents, 2nd ed., p. 143.