Word: monteverdi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the composers represented will be Inchois, Dufay, Byrd, Campian, Monteverdi, Tomkins, Machaut, di Lasso, and Josquin des Pres...
...mixed voices, probably beyond the capabilities of the available performers, suffered from the apparently unquenchable desire of individual voices to stand out alone. The performance lacked both clarity and freshness; it continually dragged. Similar difficulties were encountered in the four Gabrieli selections, although the fine expression and phrasing in Monteverdi's Ohime Se Tanto Amate made up for lapses in technique. With the superb playing of six members of the New England Conservatory's brass department backing them up, the combined groups offered, in the final Jubilate Deo, some of the unrestrained, full-blown sonorities the large audience had been...
Sirs: In my opinion the inclusion of Monteverdi, Palestrina and Chopin in the twelve best list of composers voted by the musicologists is almost as absurd as the inclusion of Tin Pan Alley Gershwin by the Stanford students. And where are the two greatest symphonists of our time-Sibelius and Shostakovich...
...Brahms 8) Monteverdi...