“La Cecchina”
1587-1645
Birth date: Sept. 18, 1587
Birth place: Florence, Italy
Died: Nov. 1641 ?
Buried: Florence, Italy
Of birth
Giulio Caccini
Lucia Gagnolanti
Settimia Caccini
Margherita della Scala
Of
Francesca
Giovanni Battista Signorini
Margherita Signonini
Tomaso Raffaelli
Tomaso Raffaelli
1607-1627 Employed by the Medici court
1627-1634 Employed by Vincenzo Buonvisi
1635- Retired
1624 commissioned
1625 first performed
0:00 Silence
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0:50 Verse 1 begins
1:18 Vocals begin
1:20 Strings
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1:48 Bridge
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1:56 Vocals
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2:26 Bridge
2:36 Adagio
3:06 Bridge
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3:16 Vocals
3:46 Adagio vocals
4:37 Vocals vibrato
4:54 Adagio vocals
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5:09 Loud choir
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5:40 Two female vocals
6:16 Male vocals return
6:30 Male vocalist stops
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6:46 Male vocals reemerge
6:56 Male vocals solo
Caccini, Francesca 1/2 'La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola
d'Alcina' (1996) Pro Musica Camerata.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYfM65BSodA
Cypess, Rebecca. Francesca Caccini, ARTICLE Encyclopedia
Britannica
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1670605
/Francesca-Caccini
Inglese, Dominick. Essay on Francesca Caccini: “The Songbird”
Who Soared.
http://educationcompilation.com/index.php/bookreviews/ba-in-english/music/music-history/102francesca-caccini-la-checcina
Zuckerman, Nate, The University of Chicago, 2004.
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/IWW/BIOS/A0083.
html