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Giulio Aldinucci was born in Siena (Italy) in 1981 and began learning music when he was a child. In addition to his musical research, that always focuses on different synthesis methods and on the use of field recordings, he also writes music for acoustic instruments. www.giulioaldinucci.com www.facebook.com/giulioaldinucci .

Giulio Regondi (1822-1872) was an Italian concertinst, classical guitarist and composer. He spent his early years touring throughout Europe as a child prodigy. Fernando Sor dedicated his Souvenir d'amitié, op. 46 to Regondi in 1831, when the boy was just nine. Regondi wrote most of his music for the concertina, an English/German aerophonic instrument, though his compositions for the classical guitar are more popular. His musical and technical ideas extended somewhat the possibilities of the guitar, compared to the standards prevailing in his time. His use of very wide chord voicing, typical of the piano, and the overextension of the...

Giulio Caccini (1551-1618) was an Italian singer and composer. He composed mainly two types of songs: the strophic air and the through-composed madrigal. He served the Medici court in Florence as music director from 1600. In reaction to the polyphonic musical style of the Renaissance, he discussed his ideas for a new style of monody, accompanied solo song, in his Le nuove musiche (1602). The monodies in this publication contain expressive melodies accompanied by block chords rather than the traditional polyphony. He abhored excessive ornamentation in vocal lines, a practice singers had adopted during the Renaissance. His vocal lines were...