In Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda , SV 153, Claudio Monteverdi transforms a dramatic episode from Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered into musical theatre. i Work Information Composer: Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) Title: Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (The Combat of Tancredi and Clorinda), SV 153 Year of composition: c. 1624 First performance: Carnival 1624, according to Monteverdi’s dating, at Girolamo Mocenigo’s residence in Venice Genre: Staged dramatic work in genere rappresentativo , published in the Eighth Book of Madrigals Musical Period: Early Baroque Structure: A continuous dramatic scene for a narrator, two characters, and strings with basso continuo Duration: approx. 18–21 minutes Instrumentation: Three solo voices — narrator ( Testo ), Tancredi and Clorinda. Four viole da braccio (soprano, alto, tenor and bass), with contrabasso da gamba and harpsichord for the continuo. Text: Torquato Tasso, chiefly from Canto XII of Gerusalemme liberata . Fir...