How To Use Monteverdi In A Sentence
- 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
- 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
- There are musicologists who assert that the three great innovators in our musical history were Monteverdi, Bach, and Stravinsky, though the assertion is disputable.
- Strains of early music, perhaps a Monteverdi lament, filtered down to her from an upper floor. COMPULSION
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- A few of the audience may have wandered away with the feeling that too little of this gave us a pure, beguiling Monteverdi sound.
- 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.
