the beginnings of the baroque style
the second practice
the years around 1600 were a time of wholesale experimentation in every aspect of composition. not only did they see the emergence of the monodic style and the basso continuo ,but there was a deeper and more general upheaval that these glaring innovations should not be allowed to obscure.there is no better testimony to this than the polemics of those who were alarmed by the abandonment of past standards. the composer and theorist, Giovanni Maria Artusi (1540-1613), a canon of the church if San Salvatore of Bologna, was the most outspoken critic of the new tendencies in his dialogue, the Artusi, or the Imperfections of Modern Music 1600. It is significant that music attacked there was not monodic but polyphonic. One of the interlocutors. Luca, who usually took the conservative point of view. gave his reactions to some madrigals,which were written by an unnamed, and which he had heard the previous day at a private salon. Actually they were by Claudio Monteverdi 1576-1643