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Word: traditon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Monteverdi is a brilliant tactician; he bases just about all the Vespers music on the ancient traditon of Gregorian chant. Surely that will appeal to conservative church authorities. And he shows a dazzling musical variety in doing so; surely that will impress the musical world. And he intersperses the psalms and canticles with the very latest things, little concertos or motets for solo voices, displaying the fabulous virtuosity that the Mantuan singers, under Monteverdi's direction, were capable...

Author: By Prof. THOMAS Kelly, | Title: CLOSER LOOK | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

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