“The Songbird” Sings at Crescendo Event – The Millbrook Independent

“The Songbird” Sings at Crescendo Event – The Millbrook Independent

by Kevin T McEneaney Monody was invented at the Medici court in Florence around 1580 by Vincenzo Galilei, father of the astronomer Galileo, who set a passage from his son’s Inferno (the Ugolino episode), as well as a passage from the laments of Jeremiah. This established the basso continuo lines for two instruments whose roots resided in the organ line, the organ doubling whatever was happening in the lower part of the polyphonic line.   The ren…