| Approximately from 1580 to 1630 baroque music began to transition Western art music
from Renaissance norms, as the Florentine Camerata, a group of humanists, artists,
and intellectuals inspired by Ancient Greek musical practice, began to codify certain
exceptions to the rule in Renaissance music as the new norm - things such as emphasis
on separate melody, bass, and accompaniment, and harmony and single-key tonality over
multiple independent melodic lines and counterpoint. Early Baroque saw the spread
of the idea that a sequence of chords rather than just a sequence of notes could provide
movement and closure to a piece of music. Claudio Monteverdi is a major figure in
the Early Baroque - he began his career writing in the earlier Renaissance polyphonic
styles, but helped transition musical culture to the Early Baroque with the innovation
of basso continuo (a notational method featuring numerals and symbols which communicate
intervals and chords to play above the bass) and his theorizing of seconda pratica,
a codification and defense of his new musical approach in opposition to the earlier
Renaissance polyphonic style, or prima pratica.
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DDEX Data Dictionary for Allowed Value Sets, 2019-09-16