Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Operatic scena by Claudio Monteverdi
Printed part
CatalogueSV 153
LanguageItalian
Based onLa Gerusalemme Liberata
by Torquato Tasso
Performed1624
Published1638
Scoring
  • three voices
  • divided strings
  • continuo

Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (The Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda), SV 153, is an operatic scena for three voices by Claudio Monteverdi. The libretto is drawn from Torquato Tasso's La Gerusalemme Liberata. It was first performed in Venice in 1624, and printed in 1638 in Monteverdi's eighth book of madrigals. Monteverdi used musical features here for the first time to enhance the dramatic depiction of a battle in stile concitato, such as pizzicato and tremolo.