Word: madrigale
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Given a table, tuning fork, piles of music and the Sestetto Italiano Luca Marenzio one has a delightful evening of Italian madrigals from the late sixteenth century. Add Sanders Theatre and last night's smallish but enthusiastic audience, and Adriano Banchieri's madrigal comedy La Barca di Venezia per Podova...
Il Dissonante, as abbot Banchieri was known to the academic world of his day, did not hesitate to make a single pivot note the sole point of continuity in a total shift of harmony. Daring in his time, such transitions still surprise the traditionally trained ear. Banchieri also jabbed his...
Triteness and cliches plague modern choral music--patriotic pieces especially--and Session's Turn, O Libertad in particular. Complex accompaniment and dissonance cannot hide its dullness and essentially barber-shop harmonies. Such was not so with Elliot Forbes's madrigal Music whose harmonies seemed amazingly fresh and lacking in cliches...
It must be admitted that the Glee Club performs the more "classical" numbers with greater skill than it does Ten Thousand Men of Harvard. This, of course, is attributable to the quality of the music, and it would be ridiculous to sing the Veritas March with the same delicacy necessary...
Venice (Sept. 12-27). New works by Italian composers plus the first performance of Igor Stravinsky's 15-minute religious oratorio Gesualdo Monumentum, a work inspired by the writings of 16th century Madrigal Composer Don Carlo Gesualdo (who evidently used his music to sublimate his personal troubles; he had...