Events

• The wedding of Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany
  Tuscany
  Tuscany is a region in Italy. It has an area of about 23,000 square kilometres and a population of about 3.75 million inhabitants. The regional capital is Florence ....
  
   is celebrated with six staged intermezzi
  Intermezzo
  In music, an intermezzo , in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work...
  
  , featuring music by Emilio de' Cavalieri
  Emilio de' Cavalieri
  Emilio de' Cavalieri was an Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of the Renaissance era. His work, along with that of other composers active in Rome, Florence and Venice, was critical in defining the beginning of the musical Baroque era...
  
   and Giovanni de' Bardi
  Giovanni de' Bardi
  Giovanni de' Bardi , Count of Vernio, was an Italian literary critic, writer, composer and soldier.- Biography :Giovanni de' Bardi was born in Florence....
  
  , which presaged the first operas, and were a formative influence on the Baroque style.

Publications

• William Byrd
  William Byrd
  William Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard and consort music.-Provenance:Knowledge of Byrd's biography expanded in the late 20th century, thanks largely...
  
  
  • Cantiones Sacrae, Book 1
  • Songs of Sundrie Natures
• Salamone Rossi
  Salamone Rossi
  Salamone Rossi or Salomone Rossi was an Italian Jewish violinist and composer. He was a transitional figure between the late Italian Renaissance period and early Baroque.-Life:...
  
   – a collection of 19 canzonette
  Canzonetta
  In music, a canzonetta was a popular Italian secular vocal composition which originated around 1560...