Course
MUSC-311-01
Document Type
Student Paper
Publication Date
Winter 12-13-2019
Disciplines
Music
Description, Abstract, or Artist's Statement
One of Claudio Monteverdi’s greatest contributions to the opera was his unification of musical ideas and theoretical philosophies passed down from his predecessors. These ideas were mostly concerned with the way in which a composer could manage instruments and voices in a dramatically satisfying way. Monteverdi’s La Favola d’Orfeo was the first opera to employ new musical philosophies that would come to characterize the genre. In this essay, we will outline operatic orchestration practices before Monteverdi and connect them to the La Favola d’Orfeo to demonstrate the profound shift that Monteverdi brought to the development of modern opera.
Augustana Digital Commons Citation
Anderson, Sarah; Estes, Grant; and Hansen, Peyton. "La Favola d’Orfeo and the Role of the Operatic Orchestra" (2019). 2019 Festscrift: Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo.
https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/muscfest2019/4
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