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Fifth Book of Madrigals · No. 4

Claudio Monteverdi · 1605 · G minor · 82 bars · 103 chords analysed

The Fifth Book (1605) is Monteverdi's reply to the critic Giovanni Maria Artusi, who had attacked the unprepared dissonances of “Cruda Amarilli”. In the preface Monteverdi defends a “second practice” in which the words rule the harmony. The last pieces in the book add a basso continuo, pointing towards the Baroque.

Keys visited: G minor, D minor, B♭ major, D major, C major, F major, C minor, G major, A minor.