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In many apparently serious motets the tone-painting of individual words is so literal that one suspects a half-humorous intent, and occasionally one is sure of it: the concertato performance of motets is parodied in Laudent Deum cythara, in which five instrumental families are named, to music characteristic for each, in the space of a dozen bars the total length of the piece.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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In a letter of June 25, 1594, Gesualdo indicated he was writing music for the three women in the concerto delle donne; however, it is probable that some of the music he wrote, for example that in the newly developing monodic and/or concertato styles, has not survived.
AvaxHome RSS: 2010
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Like the Vespers of 1610, these settings of antiphons and psalms are highly varied in structure, voicing, and instrumentation, from a tenor solo with two violins obbligato (Sanctorum meritis primo) to an eight-voice concertato with two violins and four trombones plus continuo (Dixit Dominus primo).
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