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• Personalities
• Classical
• Renaissance
• Theorist

(Vin-chant’-zo Ga-le-la’-e) c. 1520–91 Italian theorist and musician The father of Galileo Galilei, Vincenzo, also had a scientific mind. His experience as a lutenist and composer formed the practical basis for a significant body of music theory. His later works, especially, are heavily influenced by contemporary humanist enquiry into the nature of ancient music and, in particular ...

• Instruments
• Percussion

Understanding how to use friction to produce sounds in glass goes back to Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), who discussed the singing effect achieved by running a moistened finger around the rim of a glass. In 1743, the Irish musician Richard Puckeridge created an angelic organ, or seraphim, from glasses rubbed with wet fingers. The glasses were filled with water ...

• Personalities
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• Composer
• Renaissance

example of the use of specified dynamics. Recommended Recording: Music for San Rocco, Gabrieli Consort & Players (dir) Paul McCreesh (Archiv) Introduction | Renaissance | Classical Personalities | Vincenzo Galilei | Renaissance | Classical ...

• Styles & Forms
• Classical
• Early Baroque

(Bardi disapproved strongly of singers who ruined madrigals by adding badly improvised ornamentation merely in order to show off their voices.) Among the members of Bardi’s Camerata were Vincenzo Galilei (c. 1520–91) and Caccini, the most important singer at the Florentine court. Another court singer, Peri, was a member of a similar (though less academic) group which ...

• Styles & Forms
• Opera
• Roots of Opera

, its members came together principally to discuss the music of the ancient Greeks with the aim of influencing the composition of contemporary music. Among its chief members were Vincenzo Galilei, an expert in the music of the ancient world (and the father of Galileo), and the composers Giulio Caccini and Jacopo Peri, both of whom went on to ...

• Arts & Culture
• Classical
• Early Baroque

Broadly speaking, empiricism, from the Greek empeiria (‘experience’), is a philosophical tradition that accepts as fact only what can be verified by observation, or experience, through the use of the five senses. Galileo Galilei’s support of Copernican theory was a result of his observation of the planet Venus through a telescope. His insistence that what he saw ...