Why does nobody talk about Carlo Gesualdo? >wrote music that - /his/ - History & Humanities

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2017-04-18 03:24:06 Post No. 2678322
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Anonymous 2017-04-18 03:24:06 Post No. 2678322 [Report]

Why does nobody talk about Carlo Gesualdo?
>wrote music that had elements of tonality 50 years before tonality existed
>used chromaticism that wasn't seen again for over 100 years, and nothing like it had been seen before
Non-musically he was fucking insane
>finds out wife is cheating on him. He pretends to go hunting for a few days, then comes back, kills her lover on the spot, and makes her say Salve Regina before he kills her
>had a servant whose entire job was to beat him daily
>tried to buy his uncles skeleton to make a medicine lut of because he thought it would cure his depression

This guy is fucking cool as hell, why don't we talk about him more?

Anonymous 2017-04-18 03:27:43 Post No.2678340
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Anonymous 2017-04-18 03:27:43 Post No.2678340 [Report]

>>2678322
Music before 1700ish is criminally underrated IMHO.

Anonymous 2017-04-18 03:28:40 Post No.2678345
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Anonymous 2017-04-18 03:28:40 Post No.2678345 [Report]

>>2678340
Definitely. There was a lot of experimentation in the Renaissance.

Anonymous 2017-04-18 03:39:34 Post No.2678377
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>>2678322

>yfw ywn have a qt3.14 servant whose only purpose is to beat your ass for your own arousal
>yfw you will never have the balls to kill the nigger fucking your wife
>yfw you will never snort your own uncle's skeleton

Anonymous 2017-04-18 03:40:25 Post No.2678380
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Anonymous 2017-04-18 03:40:25 Post No.2678380 [Report]

>>2678322
>1650: tonality is invented

Anonymous 2017-04-18 03:45:40 Post No.2678388
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Anonymous 2017-04-18 03:45:40 Post No.2678388 [Report]

>>2678380
Look up Miserere Mei, Deus. It is full of cadences and it isn't in a church mode like most baroque music. It was written in 1611 (technically after the end of the renaissance, but still).