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author = ["authors/jenna.md"]
date = "2015-09-12T17:33:00-04:00"
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lastmod = "2015-09-12T17:33:00-04:00"
slug = "it-all-comes-back-to-monteverdi"
title = "It all comes back to Monteverdi"
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Sprechstimme

Music serving text

Word painting

Heightened speech

Gender bending

We take more risks in Monteverdi than we do in Handel, definitely in Mozart, and definitely in Verdi - not necessarily wrong, but the music is particularly conducive to new ideas, less is calculated or decided in advance by the composer

