bossinensis

Updated: May 23, 2025

The second shows the same music as arranged for solo voice and lute by Franciscus Bossinensis as found in a collection published by Petrucci in 1509. How far removed this species of lyric solo was from the dramatic recitative of Peri and Caccini is apparent at a single glance.

W. J. (William James) Henderson - Some Forerunners of Italian Opera