Monody
Monody Caccini, Le Nuove musiche, 1601, title page In poetry, monody is a poem in which one person laments another's death. In music, monody is a solo vocal composition distinguished by ... songs (so one can speak both of monody as a whole as well as a particular monody). The term itself is a recent ...
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Chorale monody
Chorale monody In music, a chorale monody was a type of a sacred composition ... related to the contemporary Italian style of monody. Almost all examples of chorale monodies were ... half of the 17th century. A chorale monody used the text of a chorale, but ... Heinrich Schütz References Robert L. Marshall. "Chorale monody", The New Grove Dictionary of Music ...
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Emilio de' Cavalieri
... he was an influential early composer of monody, and wrote what is usually considered to ... have gotten some of his ideas for monody directly from Bardi, since Cavalieri was not ... Cavalieri claimed to be the inventor of monody, often with considerable irritation: "everyone knows I am the inventor of monody," he said in a letter of 1600 ... Reading Articles Emilio de' Cavalieri, Giulio Caccini, Monody in The New Grove Dictionary of ...
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User:Antandrus/temp
... Ancient Greece, and in so doing created monody and the first experiments in what was ... of Ancient Greece, through the means of monody, a form of declaimed music over a ... without distinct sections. With the development of monody, and the change of predominant musical textures ... late 16th century, gradually acquired characteristics of monody--and then vanished entirely, being changed in ...
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Baroque music
... cadential points in madrigals, while in early monody the feeling of tonality is still rather ... sustaining bass instrument and a keyboard instrument monody - music for one melodic voice with accompaniment ... voice and rhythmically similar accompaniment (this and monody are contrasted with the typical Renaissance texture ... Masque Oratorio Passion Cantata Mass (music) Anthem Monody Chorale Instrumental Concerto grosso Fugue Suite Allemande ...
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Giulio Caccini
... recitativo, as the newly created style of monody was called, proved to be popular not ... the purpose, intent and correct performance of monody from the time. It includes musical examples ...
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Giovanni de' Bardi
... of the association was the invention of monody, and shortly thereafter, opera; in addition, the ... have tried his hand at the new monody himself. He also either organized or wrote ... In the Dialogo, Galilei condemns polyphony, praises monody, and expresses the wish that the musical ...
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User:Antandrus/contribs
... t forget to write that one) Chorale monody Not many; not much to write; but ... music history would be incomprehensibly different. No monody, no recitative, possibly no opera. Antoine Busnois ... Antoine Brumel Agostino Agazzari divertimento canzone chorale monody Enrique Granados Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Johannes ...
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Renaissance music
... early dramatic precursors of opera such as monody, the madrigal comedy, and the intermedio are ... of Ancient Greece, through the means of monody, a form of declaimed music over a ... explanation of this transition, see polychoral, concertato, monody, madrigal, and opera, as well as the ...
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Opera
... of opera proper was the practice of monody. Monody is the solo singing/setting of a ... only a small step to fully-fledged monody. All such works tended to set humanist ...
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