This city is the epithet of a Breton choirmaster whose motets were incompletely edited by George Nugent. A Jewish violinist from this city wrote 33 polyphonic settings of Hebrew liturgical music, punningly titled “Songs of Solomon.” L’Ottuso Accademico defends a compositional style first used in this city in the book On the Imperfections of Modern Music. Samuel Cohen set a poem by Naftali Herz Imber to the tune of a madrigal named for this city. While working in this city, a composer was criticized by Giovanni (*) Artusi for a style of song in which lyrics govern music. “Hatikvah” and Ma Vlást separately adapted the tune of a madrigal named for this birthplace of seconda pratica. Before moving to Venice from this city, one composer wrote three of his nine madrigal books and the oldest regularly performed opera. For 10 points, name this city where the early phase of Claudio Monteverdi’s career was patronized by the Gonzagas. ■END■
ANSWER: Mantua [or Mantova; accept “La Mantovana” or “Il Ballo di Mantova” or “Mantuan Dance”; prompt on “Fuggi, Fuggi” by asking “what is that madrigal’s alternate title?”] (The first clue refers to Jacquet of Mantua. The second clue refers to Salomone Rossi. “Hatikvah” is not directly based on “Vltava;” Cohen used the Romanian adaptation of “La Mantovana,” “Carul cu boi,” while Smetana used its Czech adaptation, “Kočka leze dírou.”)
<Jacob Egol, Classical Music and Opera>
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