How To Use Monteverdi In A Sentence
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In this almost totally integrated work, Monteverdi included five vesper psalm settings along with solo motets which he used as substitutes for the antiphons which would normally have been chanted between the psalms.
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Born in Oviedo, the capital of the Asturias region, and also part Basque, Ms. Urquiola has designed the sets for a new interpretation of the Monteverdi opera, "The Coronation of Poppea.
Design With a Poetical Touch
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Monteverdi was equally fond of chromaticism, especially in his madrigals.
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One Monteverdi Work and 400 Years of Debate music world, besotted with anniversaries and now deep into the Romantic age, will celebrate the bicentenaries of Schumann and Chopin this year.
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The move towards a concerted style is seen in Monteverdi's madrigal output.
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Their concert, entitled Per Cantare e Sonare, consisted of pieces by Monteverdi and his lesser-known contemporaries, the cornetto often standing in for a second voice.
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Gone are the huge, enigmatic sets and the hard-to-like orchestrations (the jazzed-up Monteverdi which accompanied Vsprs was particularly uphill work), replaced by a bare stage and a recorded soundtrack.
Out of Context: For Pina
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Though Claudio Cavina's fine group are best known for their recordings of the two greatest late-renaissance madrigal composers, Gesualdo and Monteverdi, they have not neglected the works of less celebrated 16th-century composers.
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(And just to cover his bases, Monteverdi also packaged with it a setting of the Mass, done impeccably in the fustiest old-fashioned style.)
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Mastering the cornetto and other early instruments such as chitarrones, cithers and sackbuts is just one of the challenges facing Pinchgut Opera as it prepares to stage Monteverdi's Orfeo.
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The Singers, under their director Tim Morris, will perform works by Monteverdi.
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In addition to touring widely, he made dozens of recordings of work by pre-classical composers including Monteverdi and Frescobaldi.
James Tyler, luntenist and master of early instruments, helped preserve music of ancient era
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I heard some of the people in my college sing Monteverdi's madrigal 'Lamento della Ninfa,' and I was moved to tears by it," he recalled.
When Sheer Power Is Not Enough
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The arias now give the impression of being an overflow from the recitative's disciplined passion - as they were in the recitative of early Baroque, Monteverdian opera.
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A few of the audience may have wandered away with the feeling that too little of this gave us a pure, beguiling Monteverdi sound.
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From his teen to middle age, till the old age, Monteverdi has devoted his whole life to composing madrigal and publishing eight volumes of Madrigal altogether.
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Ensemble intonation and accuracy in complicated runs, written by Monteverdi for virtuosic singers, were less than elegant in this performance by eight singing actors, a lutenist, and director Benoît Malmberg.
In performance: Romeo and Julia Koren
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When copying Monteverdi's Ahi dolente partita on pp.410-11, each occurrence of a unison between the two cantus parts is marked with a cross.
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The discovery in Rome in 1599 of an embalmed body, supposedly of St Cecilia, the tutelary saint of music, elicited papal approval for the airs and madrigals of the age of Monteverdi.
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Strains of early music, perhaps a Monteverdi lament, filtered down to her from an upper floor.
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There are musicologists who assert that the three great innovators in our musical history were Monteverdi, Bach, and Stravinsky, though the assertion is disputable.
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Listening to early Baroque music has a similar effect—the generation of Monteverdi and all the Venetian composers: Gabrieli, Rigatti and Cavalli.
Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado Slows the Tempo
