The madrigal "Altri canti d'amor, tenero arciero" is from Monteverdi's eighth book of Madrigals. This dramatic piece is scored for six voices, two violins and four violas. Italian text: Altri canti d'Amor, tenero arciero, i dolci vezzi, e i sospirati baci; narri gli sdegni e le bramate paci quand'unisce due alme un sol pensiero. Di Marte io canto, furibondo e fiero, iduri incontri, e le battaglie audaci; strider le spade, e bombeggiar le faci, fo nel mio canto bellicoso e fiero. Tu cui tessuta han di cesareo alloro la corona immortal Marte e Bellona, gradisci il verde ancor novo lavoro, che mentre guerre canta e guerre sona, oh gran Fernando, l'orgoglioso choro, del tuo sommo valor canta e ragiona. The Late Renaissance madrigal came to full flower in the music of Monteverdi. His five-voice A un giro sol, from the Fourth Book of Madrigals (1603), represents a superb example of the composers style in the use of rich word painting and vocal passagework. Monteverdi's nine madrigal collections (published between 1687 and 1638 the first five when he was working in Mantua, the rest in St. Marks in Venice), mark the transition from the older polyphonic style of the Renaissance to the accompanied solo madrigal of the Baroque. The Consort of Musicke Anthony Rooley ********************* Since Monteverdi was a really important composer to the transition between Renaissance and Baroque music, my video transits from a Renaissance painting (Boticelli) to a Baroque one (Rubens)!

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