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Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/B/Baccusi, Hippolita

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69496Complete Encyclopaedia of Music — Baccusi, HippolitaJohn Weeks Moore

Baccusi, Hippolita. An Italian monk, chapel-master at Verona, about 1590. Cerrete assures us that he composed music as early as 1550. He was one of the first who sustained t ne voices in church music by instruments playing in unison.