The baroque period had two different practices. The prima practica and the seconda practica were the practices that spited controversy with each other. The "first practice" was just the style of vocal polyphony that was established in writing by Zarlino. The "second practice" was just Claudio Monteverdi's way of being adventurous...
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The "second practice" was just Claudio Monteverdi's way of being adventurous. He said that the first practice was music that the text prevailed, and that the second practice the text overpowered the music. In Monteverdi's cruda amarilli he demonstrates the use of his second practice. Since Monteverdi used this second practice Composers start to see instrumental music as a different medium from vocal music and because of this they started to see them separately as two components, now borrow vocal idioms in instrumental writing, and vice versa...
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