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...Music Club Chorus, under Howard Brown will sing shorter works by the 16th century composers Monteverdi, Morenzio, and Gesualdo di Venosa...
Playing variations on this theme, Dr. Hanson implied connections between dissonance and passion, sex, revolutionary ardor and crime. Thus when Wagner, in the Lohengrin Prelude, wished to evoke virginal purity, he used far fewer dissonances than in the Tannhduser Bacchanale. Palestrina's contemporary, Don Carlo Gesualdo, a 16th-Century rapscallion who ended by hacking his wife to pieces with a knife, used far more dissonances than pious Palestrina...