Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda — 4 canti guerrieri e amarosi is a dramatic scena by Claudio Monteverdi, composed and first performed in 1624. The work blends early Baroque monodic recitative with madrigalian vocal writing and instrumental ritornelli, using vivid rhetorical gestures, stark contrasts of texture and expressive string writing to depict the battle narrative, and it represents a key development in Monteverdi's output and in the emergence of operatic and dramatic vocal techniques.
