February is the shortest month of the year. That fact inspired #ClassicsaDay team (of which I’m a member) to make short classical pieces the theme for the month. The challenge is to select stand-alone works, not movements of larger pieces. Participants post links to short classical pieces in the social media channel of their choice, […]
Claudio Monteverdi
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#ClassicsaDay #PoetryMonth – Week 2
What’s the connection between classical music and classic poetry? That was theme some of us decided to explore with #ClassicsaDay. For April 2018 we posted examples of settings of poetry in classical music, works inspired by poetry, and more. Here’s an annotated list of the works I posted for the first week of #PoetryMonth. Gustav […]
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Claudio Monteverdi’s Total Eclipse of the Renaissance
Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi inhabited a changing landscape; the high-minded, heavenly polyphony of the renaissance was gradually giving way to the more prosaic and popularly oriented sound of the baroque. 2017 marks the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s baptism in Cremona on May 15, 1567. On April 9th, 1567 the city of Rome was only 2 […]