Discovering Baroque - Ep.04 The Birth of the Baroque, Part 2 : Monteverdi, Opera & the Rise of Instrumental Music
How did the Baroque era find its sound?
In Part 2 of our journey into the birth of Baroque music, we follow the musical revolution from the experiments of the Florentine Camerata to the extraordinary achievements of Claudio Monteverdi—and discover how instrumental music was developing a dramatic new voice of its own.
We begin in Renaissance Florence, where composers, poets, and wealthy patrons helped bring opera into existence. Then we meet Monteverdi and explore his famous disagreement with music theorist Giovanni Maria Artusi. Could breaking the established rules of harmony actually make…
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