Francesca Caccini (1587–ca.1640)
- Caccini, Francesca. La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina. Ed. Doris
Silbert Smith. Smith College Music Archives, 7. Northampton, Mass.: Smith
College, 1945. M1500 .C322 L5.
A piano-vocal score, with a 10-page introduction. This was the first opera by a
woman; she was Giulio Caccini’s daughter. - Raney, Carolyn. “Francesca Caccini, Musician to the Medici and Her Primo
libro(1618).” Ph.D. diss., New York U., 1971. v, 240p.
Giulio Caccini (1546–1618)
- Pirrotta, Nino. “Early Opera and Aria.” In New Looks(#2429), 39–107.
A valuable discussion of the beginnings of opera, problems of form and defini-
tion, and the nature of the aria. Caccini’s arias for L’Euridice(1600; the earli-
est opera for which complete music survives) are examined. - Pirrotta, Nino. “Temperaments and Tendencies in the Florentine Camerata.”
In his Music and Culture in Italy from the Middle Ages to the Baroque,217–
234 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P., 1984; ML290.1 .P57).
A valuable study, generally minimizing the creativity of the Camerata. Caccini,
the first monodist (in his solo madrigals) is well covered. It was his association
with the Bardi group that brought them undeserved credit. - Giazotto, Remo. Le due patrie di Giulio Caccini.. .Florence: Olschki, 1984.
vii, 89p. ISBN 88-222-3284-4. ML410 .C16 G44.
Facsimiles (29 plates) and discussions of 14 documents, relating to the Caccini
family, from a private archive in Rome. Index, no bibliography. - Carter, Tim. “Giulio Caccini: New Facts, New Music.” Studi musicali 16
(1987): 13–31.
New information from the Archivio di Stato, Florence, serves to clarify early
stages in Caccini’s career. A previously unknown solo song is given in score.
Much of the new source material is from letters to and from Duke Cosimo de’
Medici and his ambassador in Rome, Averardo Serristori.
Caccini’s dedication to L’Euridice and his preface to Le nuove musiche(solo madri-
gals) are in Strunk. For material on the Camerata see #2440ff.
John Cage (1912–1992)
- Kuhn, Laura Diane. “John Cage’s Europeras 1 & 2: The Musical Means of
Revolution.” Ph.D. diss., U. of California at Los Angeles, 1992. 734p.
An extensive treatment of the Europerasappears in Lindenberger (#81).
Antonio Caldara (ca.1670–1736)
- Kirkendale, Ursula. Antonio Caldara: Sein Leben und seine venezianisch-
römischen Oratorien.Graz: Böhlaus, 1966. 406p. ML410 .C26 K6.
A revision of the author’s Ph.D. dissertation, U. of Bonn, 1961. An Italian trans-
lation appeared in 1971 (Florence: Olschki). Caldara’s biography is thoroughly
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