Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
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The music you are listening to is "Chi Piu' Cara T'havra' Chi Tanto T'ama" by Jacopo Peri. Peri's music was modeled by Claudio Monteverdi ("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.

Homophony is a texture in which two or more parts move together in harmony and tempo, the relationship between the parts being chords.

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