HATHOR CONSORT | OF HEAVENLY & EARTHLY LOVE

12 December Belgium / Brussels

Marnix De Cat & HATHOR CONSORT

Love: divine love, earthly love, erotic love. In the Italian music of the 16th and 17th centuries, composers Monteverdi, Caccini, Strozzi, Sanches and Grandi put the different aspects of love into music in songs and opera arias. While the polyphonic madrigal remained the most popular form for singing about human love in the 16th century, they were expressed by a new dramatic genre at the beginning of the 17th century: the opera.
One of the founders of opera was Giulio Caccini (1551-1618), who, as a leading member of the intellectual Camerata Fiorentina, helped develop the concept of the monody: an affecting, monophonic melody carried by a simple accompaniment. A story about the diversity of love.


HATHOR CONSORT | OF HEAVENLY & EARTHLY LOVE

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