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lamento

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lamento

Plaintive aria in early 17th-century Italian opera conventionally placed before the tragic culmination of the plot. The best known example is the Lamento d'Arianna, the only surviving fragment from Monteverdi's Arianna.



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25, 26 (the latter a "partenza amorosa," or "amorous parting song," though when both works were reprinted in the collection Lamento d'Arianna, 1623, it was designated a "lettera amorosa").
Guido Casoni on Love as Music, A Theme "for All Ages and Studies" [*] by HARRAN, DON / Renaissance Quarterly
Certain features can be traced to the contemporary style of Claudio Monteverdi's madrigals and of his Lamento d'Arianna, and there are various ways this music might have been known to her.
Disembodied Voices: Music and Culture in an Early Modern Italian ... by Weaver, Elissa / Renaissance Quarterly
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