Italian classical music is difficult to do if everyone is singing a melody at the same time; thus, polyphony gave way to homophony, and early opera consisted of relatively simple melodies with texts about Greek mythology, sung in Italian and supported by simple harmonies. The important city in Italy in this development of music in the 16th century was Florence. (See also: Florentine Camerata, Vincenzo Galilei, Jacopo Peri, Palestrina, Arcangelo Corelli.) Besides Florence, two other Italian cities are particularly worthy of mention in the period around 1600. There is somewhat of a friendly rivalry between advocates of the two cities as to which
Jacopo Gianninoto Vincenzo Capirola and S.L. Weiss. Gianninoto performs mainly in Europe and South-East Asia, and has published several LP albums, both as a performer and as a composer and he is the creator and director of several artistic multidisciplinary projects such as "Baroque Me Baby", "Renaissance Redux", "The Praise of Folly", "The Giordano Bruno Project", "Lux In Tenebris", "Chiaroscuro", "Herometic", often mixing theatre, music, visual art, poetry including his collaboration with thai writer S.P. Somtow and several theatre and dance companies. Jacopo Gianninoto Jacopo Gianninoto is an Italian lutenist, guitarist and composer living in Bangkok, Thailand. He has published a series