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The main 'Seconda Prattica' vocal idioms are:
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1) Italian Madrigal
2) French 'Air de cour' 3) Opera |
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A new development in the Italian madrigal is the...
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Concertato Madrigal = any number of voices combine with instruments, either basso continuo alone, or basso continuo and other instruments. The genre represents a kind of synthesis between the single-voiced monody (w basso continuo) and the multivoiced a capella polyphonic madrigal.
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The composer who manifests all the trends in the genre of Italian Madrigals of the early Baroque is...
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Claudio Monteverdi (1587-1590)
note: Monteverdi is a composer worthy to be mentioned along with ANY composers of western art music. The public attack on his madrigal work and his eloquent and restrained reply on p.221 of the text is worth the time to read. Monteverdi was a truly modern composer who wrote in both prima and seconda styles, but always with consummate understanding and artistry. |
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The 'a capella' madrigals of the 17th c. count among...
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...the most daring and progressive pieces of the entire Baroque Era.
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A composer of 'a capella' madrigals of the progressive type and whose music is characterized by jarring dissonances, and extreme chormaticism is...
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Carlo Gesualdo, known as Gesualdo da Venosa (March 8, 1566 – September 8, 1613), Prince of Venosa and Count of Conza, was an Italian music composer, lutenist and nobleman of the late Renaissance. He is famous for his intensely expressive madrigals, which use a chromatic language not heard again until the 19th century.
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Monteverdi's madrigals span...
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almost his entire creative life and reflect a remarkable range of compositional techniques from polyphony to monody. We will take him up again in the discussion of opera.
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'Tradimento' ('Betrayal') by Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) illustrates one of the most important of all formal innovations of the Baroque, the ...
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...'ritornello principle' = 'brief return' - it is an opening musical idea that returns at several points over the course of a work, usually after contrasting material. Composers used the 'ritornello' technique to establish a framework of both repetition and variation. CD4/30 ('Tradimento').
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The most important repertory of secular song in early-17th century France centered on the...
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...'air de cour' or 'courtly air'. Like the madrigal, the 'air de cour' was at first polyphonic but eventually evolved into the favored vehicle for solo voice and lute accompaniment. Etienne Moulinie's 'Enfin la beaute que j'adore' ('At Last, the Beauty Whom I Adore') CD4/34 resembles many 'air de cour' in is fluid, syllabic declamation of text and is harmonic and melodic simplicity.
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The creation of ___________is one of the great vocal achievments of the early 17th century.
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opera
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The most important composers of early opera were associated with...
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The Florentine Camerata: Giacopo Peri, Giulio Caccini, and Emilio Cavaliere.
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