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	Florentine Camerata
		Unifying them was the belief that music had become corrupt, and by returning to the forms and style of the ancient Greeks, the art of music could be improved, and thereby society could be improved as well.
		They were influenced by Girolamo Mei, the foremost scholar of ancient Greece at the time, who held—among other things—that ancient Greek drama was predominantly sung rather than spoken.
		While he may have been mistaken, the result was an efflorescence of musical activity unlike anything else at the time, mostly in an attempt to recover the ancient methods.
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	Dolmetsch Online - Physics of Musical Instruments - A Brief History
		As Sir David Brewster (Martyrs of Science) says, "The boldness, may we not say the recklessness, with which Galileo insisted on making proselytes of his enemies, served but to alienate them from the truth".
		Many of Vincenzo's opinions arose from his correspondence with Girolamo Mei who summed up the emancipation of music from scientific determinism in a letter to Vincenzo Galilei dated 1572:
		The true end of science is altogether different from that of art....
	www.dolmetsch.com /poshistory.htm (9410 words)

	Paul McGarr: Mozart: Overture to revolution (1991)
		In music this took place between about 1425 and 1600.
		For a variety of technical reasons a Florentine scholar in the late 16th century called Girolamo Mei concluded that the great plays of ancient Greek writers like Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were actually sung works accompanied by music (a conclusion which has since been disputed).
		This gave birth to opera, partly in France but mainly in Italy.
	www.marxisme.dk /arkiv/mcgarrp/1991/mozart/mozart.asp (14579 words)

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