Early Baroque (1 janv. 1600 – 1 janv. 1640)

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a. Focus on Italy. Word-generated music. Carry-over of some Renaissance modes of thinking about music.
i. Considering that word-painting was not moving of the soul
ii. More about Ethos of the greeks – like the “harder” music would invoke harder edge and softer would have been softer
iii. The new way to work our expression is speech rhythm – high fast low etc…
b. Basso continuo, monody, and Italian opera
c. Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Defined by Delivery; speech-rhythms and monody. Rhetoric as height of expression

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