It Was Vincenzio

To the Editors:

In the footnote to his article on Words and Music [NYR, April 13], could Virgil Thomson have meant to say that the Greek studies of the sixteenth-century camerata were advanced by Vincenzio Galilei instead of by the astronomer Galileo Galilei, who was Vincenzio’s son?

Milton Kirchman
New York City

Virgil Thomson replies:

I thank Mr. Kirchman for his correction. Vincenzio Galilei was indeed the original student of Greek music.