a long publishing history.) In addition to his secular music, he published a book of motets in Nuremberg in 1573, Novae quaedam sacrae cantiones, quas vulgo motetas vocant, for five and six voices. In his madrigals he uses chromaticism creatively, and he liked to write both madrigals and motets in groups, as did the other Medici composers (such as Corteccia and Striggio). Much of his music is intended to be accompanied by instruments, another characteristic of Florentine polyphony of the period. References and further reading James Haar: "Stefano Rossetto", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (Accessed May 14, 2007), (subscription access) Gustave Reese, Music in the Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. Davitt Moroney, "Alessandro Striggio's Mass in Forty and Sixty Parts". Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 60 No. 1., pp. 1–69. Spring 2007. ISSN 0003-0139 Stefano Rossetti, "Il lamento di Olimpia" and Other Madrigals from Four to Ten Voices, ed. and reconstructed by James Chater. Madison, Wisc.: A-R Publications (forthcoming) Notes Renaissance composers Italian classical composers Italian male classical composers 16th-century births 16th-century deaths People from Nice