MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Giovanni Artusi, Concerto Delle Donne, Ottavio Rinuccini
17 Apr 2016
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Lifestyles (and music) of the rich and famous: Perhaps the most important musician in late 16th- and early 17th-century italy, he excelled in nearly all the major genres of the period. His nine books of madrigals consolidated the achievement of the late. Renaissance masters and cultivated new aesthetic and stylistic paradigms for the musical baroque. In his operas for mantua and venice he took the experiments of the florentines (who originally invented opera circa: and developed powerful ways of expressing and structuring musical drama. His three major collections of liturgical and devotional music transcend the merely functional, exploiting his rich understanding of theatrical music and combining the polyphonic tradition of the renaissance with the musical-dramatic expression of the baroque. In 1590 monteverdi began working at the court of vincenzo i of gonzaga in mantua as a vocalist and viol player, and by 1602 he had become conductor there.
