September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi was a key figure in the transition between the Renaissance and Baroque periods—a time when not only the compositional styles were changing, but the very structures of tonality and harmony were changing as well. An innovator and revolutionary, Monteverdi challenged the accepted modes of composition and tone by writing in what he called the “seconda prattica” (second practice)—a term used to differentiate the progressive new style from the old prima prattica.
Beginning at an early age, Monteverdi primarily wrote madrigals ...
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