Jacopo Peri went between the arias and choruses and served to move the action along. Peri produced a number of other operas, often in collaboration with other composers (such as "La Flora" with Marco da Gagliano), and also wrote a number of other pieces for various court entertainments. Few of his pieces are still performed today, and even by the time of his death his operatic style was looking rather old-fashioned when compared to the work of relatively younger reformist composers such as Claudio Monteverdi. Peri's influence on those later composers, however, was large. Jacopo Peri Jacopo Peri (20 August 156112 August
Jacopo Gianninoto Jacopo Gianninoto Jacopo Gianninoto is an Italian lutenist, guitarist and composer living in Bangkok, Thailand. He has published a series of books of transcriptions of ancient music for Lute, Baroque guitar and Theorbo, adapted for classical guitar, contributing to the rediscovery of ancient Italian repertoire. His publishing work include a revision for guitar of the Antonio Vivaldi's "Concerto per due Violini Leuto e Basso RV93", a transcription for guitar of the J.S. Bach's sonatas originally written for solo violin, works on Vincenzo Galilei (father of the scientist Galileo Galilei), Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger, Francesco Corbetta, Johannes Matelart, Alessandro Piccinini, Francesco Spinacino,