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Fifth Book of Madrigals · No. 5

Claudio Monteverdi · 1605 · B♭ major · 68 bars · 116 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: B♭ major, G minor, D minor, F major, C major.