Classical Composer: | Monteverdi, Claudio |
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Lyricist: | Tasso, Torquato |
Work: | Piagne e sospira, e quando i caldi raggi |
Year Composed: | 1603 |
Duration: | 00:05:05 |
Work Category: | Choral - Secular |
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While the first madrigal portrays the separation of Amarilli and Mirtillo, the two protagonists of Guarini's Pastor fido, the last in this book, Piagn'e e sospira, depicts Erminia's delirious love for Tancredi. In Fabbri's words, "once again Monteverdi is inspired by the poetry of Tasso to explore the world of raging passions, as he was in the Third Book's Armida and Tancredi cycles ... His desire to express these emotions leads him to use musical imagery whose relative conventionality makes it all the more effective and communicative: e.g. the chromatic ascent on "Piagn'e", which is broken by the "sospiro" (sigh) of a rest, or the vocalise on "fuggon" ... The exquisitely artful polyphonic treatment is further complicated by the "chaotic" superimposing of melodies, adding to the tortuous and disjointed intonation."
Writer: Marco Longhini
Translated: Susannah Howe
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