Monteverdi - Ohime, se tanto amate
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- Created on: 06-04-13 20:26
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- Monteverdi - Ohime, se tanto amate
- Background
- Secular work for solo voices - unaccompanied
- Setting of a text by the poet Guarini
- Published in Venice - 1603
- Monteverdi style - representational instead of older reneissance
- Word regarded as the master of the music
- Absence of performance directions
- Rhythm and metre
- attempt to produce the inflections of Italian speech
- variety in rhythmic patterns
- note especiaaly the recurring pattern for "Ohime"
- Melody and Word-setting
- Mainly syllabic for clarity
- Use of intervals shows new style - tritione, diminshed 5th & 7ths
- Use of chromaticism and sequence
- Sigh like falling 3rd used for "Ohime"
- Harmony
- Unprepared dissonace
- False relation
- Tierce der Picardie
- Tonicd and dominant pedals
- IIIb - I final cadence
- Tonality
- Based on G minor, sections in D minor and B flat major
- Structure
- Each section of text treated seperately
- Falling "Ohime" recurs frequently providing a unifying element
- Resources and Texture
- Writteb for 5 accompanied voices
- Various textures to convey sense of the poem
- paired alto and tenor in dialogue - paired canto and quinto over sustained bass
- Homophony for three voices in various groupings
- Homophony for 5 voices
- Some limited imitation and and free counterpoint
- Background
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