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Article: Monteverdi's Tonal Language.
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- September 1, 1994
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Of all the repertories of early music, it is historically Claudio Monteverdi's music that has most often represented a touchstone for defining the origins of tonality; the term itself was coined around 1810 in France to refer to Jean-Philippe Rameau's harmonic theory when understood in historical terms, in a repertory that had begun, it seemed with a famous, "newly-invented" dominant seventh in m. 13 of Monteverdi's "Cruda Amarilli." In the twentieth century many monographs and dissertations have appeared seeking to trace a transition between modality (another French concept of the same vintage) and tonality, and using Monteverdi's madrigals or operas as points of reference ...
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... ... last week quoted from the entry on Monteverdi in the first edition (1880) of Grove ... In other words, don't blame Monteverdi for what scholars have done to his music, even though Monteverdi scholarship was primitive, if not ...
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