Monteverdi’s work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition — the heritage of Renaissance polyphony and the new basso continuo technique of the Baroque. Monteverdi wrote one of the earliest operas,
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Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Claudio Monteverdi’s Duo finale L’Incoronazione di Poppea
This is the closing duet from L’Incoronazione di Poppea. Depending on how the how the rest of the choral season goes, I may be singing this piece for my summer recital. Pur Ti Miro, is a beautiful duet. A little background on the opera from which it came from, and
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