A comparison of two major Baroque composers: Claudio Monteverdi and Domenico Scarlatti (turabian format)

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze two psalms by Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (1567-1643) and Giovanni Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) and compare and contrast the two pieces to find out how music changed throughout the Baroque period. While historians grouped music of the Baroque period together based on certain characteristics, the music did not remain the same throughout the period, as it would not for any other musical time period. Composers from different points …

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…two pieces by two composers. Bibliography Fabbri,Paolo. Monteverdi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Kirkpatrick, Ralph. Domenico Scarlatti. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1953. Leopold, Silke. Monteverdi: Music in Transition. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. Monteverdi, Claudio. Rudolf Ewerhart, ed. Confitebor tibi, Domine. Weisbaden: Breitkopf & Hartel, 1998. Sadie, Stanley, ed. The New Grove Italian Baroque Masters. London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1984. Scarlatti, Domenico. Laetatus sum. Stuttgart: Carus -Verlag, 1988. Sitwell, Sacheverell. A Background for Domenico Scarlatti. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970.