The Concerti delle Dame, or Concerts of the Ladies, were secret events held by the Duke of Ferrara, using a consort of sopranos at his court. The organizer was the duke's court composer, the melodiously named Luzzasco Luzzaschi, who also composed chromatic madrigals in a language approaching that of Gesualdo. But these works experimented with the declamatory, chordal, highly ornamented style that became known as the seconda pratica. The original manuscripts used in the concerts were lost after the duke's court was absorbed ...
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The Concerti delle Dame, or Concerts of the Ladies, were secret events held by the Duke of Ferrara, using a consort of sopranos at his court. The organizer was the duke's court composer, the melodiously named Luzzasco Luzzaschi, who also composed chromatic madrigals in a language approaching that of Gesualdo. But these works experimented with the declamatory, chordal, highly ornamented style that became known as the seconda pratica. The original manuscripts used in the concerts were lost after the duke's court was absorbed by the Papal States in 1598, but Luzzaschi is thought to have recycled the music in the set of 1601 madrigals heard here. Composed late in the 16th century, they are roughly contemporaneous with the Monteverdi madrigals that experimented with the new style; they are less inventive in merging the style with the existing language than are the madrigals of Monteverdi's middle books, but their sensuous texts of Cupid and pastoral scenes bespoke a whole new way of making music. The...
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