Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Music Rhetoric: Carte du pays de Tendre #2

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Jacopo Peri (1561-1633): Birth of the Opera
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The music you are listening to is "Se In Questo Scolorito" by Giulio Romolo Caccini. Caccini's music is second to Peri's music (modeled by Claudio Monteverdi) as "Seconda prattica". This music was considered to be the beginning of modern opera, as now poetry could be set to music with a new, Humanist theory of rhetoric tacens, and not the old, inflexible, strictly hierarchical Scholastic view of reality.

The names of towns, seas and rivers are easier to read in this map. 1

1 Ranum, Patricia M.; "The Harmonic Orator: The Phrasing and Rhgetoric of the Melody in French Baroque Airs", Pendragon Press Musicological Series, 2001, p. 39

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