12 th Grade Music Appreciation Class Ms. Yvonne Broome Teacher

12th Grade Music Appreciation Class

Ms. Yvonne Broome

Teacher

A Historical Study

On The Life

Of Italian Composer

Mr. Claudio Monteverdi(1567-1643)

Born in Cremona, Italy

He Is the Oldest Child of

Baldassare and Maddelena

Monteverdi

In CremonaAs a Teen

He studies music at Cremona Cathedral under maestro di cappella (music director) Marc' Antonio Ingegneri.

He becomes an accomplished musician.

He begins to compose and publish his musical works.

Monteverdi The Musician at Mantua

Worked for the influential Gonzaga

Family.He was appointed

as suonatore di vivuola

(violin player) to Duke Vincenzo I.

Life in Venice

Monteverdi was appointed as the

maestro di cappella at the Cathedral of

St. Marks.

Monteverdi

Married Claudia de Cattaneis, a court singer.

They had three children.

His Musical Compositions Includes:

Motets-a polyphonic choral composition on a sacred text usually without instrumental accompaniment.

Canzonettas-a part-song resembling but less elaborate than a madrigal.

Masses-a musical setting for the ordinary of the Mass.

Ballets-a theatrical art form using dancing, music, and scenery to convey a story, theme, or atmosphere.

Oratorios-a lengthy choral work usually of a religious nature consisting chiefly of recitatives, arias, and choruses without action or scenery.

However, He Is Noted For His Development Of:

Madrigals-a complex polyphonic unaccompanied vocal piece on a text.

&Operas-a drama set to music and made up of vocal pieces with orchestral accompaniment and orchestral overtures and interludes.

Two Of His Famous Operas Were:

His

First

Opera

And L’incoronatione Di Poppea

His Last

Monteverdi the Communicator

In addition to composing music,

Monteverdi loved to write letters many of which

have been collected and preserved.

Claudio Monteverdi

Composed music during the late Renaissance and early Barogue

periods.

It is believed that he “. . .was one of the most gifted and prolific

composers . . .”(MacClintuck 1982, 176)

The End

“ It is finished. ”

Credits:

“Master Musicians” / Monteverdi

by Denis Arnold

“Reading in the History of Performances”

by Carol MacClintuck

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