“love” And “death” In The Madrigals Of Carlo Gesualdo:a Study On The Development Of Music And Text Writing [“amor” E “morte” Nos Madrigais De Carlo Gesualdo: Um Estudo Sobre O Desenvolvimento Da Escrita Musical E Textual]
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Gesualdo’s compositional writing evolves throughout his six books of madrigals. While the first two books bring the polyphonic tradition of Renaissance, the harmonic experimentalism predominates in the madrigals of the third and fourth books. However, in the last two, there is a higher frequency of the procedures typically associated with the mature composer-the chromatic and dissonant writing. The main element that connects his writing along the three periods is the relation between music and text. Observing the treatment given by the composer to two words in the madrigals-love and death-from different periods, it is possible to confirm his increasing text painting and its implications in the resulting sound. In the first period, Gesualdo ...
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