Berardi, Angelo

ANGELO BERARDIBERARDI, ANGELOANGELO BERARDI [* ca. 1636-† 1694] Towards the end of the seventeenth century, the innovations forged by the Camerata and by MONTEVERDI had become part of the musical mainstream. Though two practices continued to exist, the validity of the second was generally accepted, while practitioners of the first felt obliged to remind their public that the two practices could indeed coexist-that the second was not intended to replace the first. Angelo Berardi clearly…