Circe's Consort

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Circe's Consort explores the music of the 16th and 17th centuries focusing on baroque aesthetics and continuo accompaniment --or improvised harmony. In 1573, a group of humanists, the Florentine Camerata, broke away from the rules of Renaissance music. What they thought of as a return to the expressive classical Greek style of drama and musical performance instead created a revolution. This new approach led to the birth of opera and has impacted all Western music ever since.