Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda is a dramatic scena by Claudio Monteverdi, composed in 1624. The work blends early Baroque monodic recitative, madrigal textures and Monteverdi's stile concitato, using heightened expressive vocal writing with a small string ensemble to depict battle and emotion, and it occupies a transitional place in his career by bridging the Renaissance madrigal tradition and emerging operatic and dramatic forms.