Gesualdo: Chromatic Harmony and Microtonal Systems in Early Music

This video is meant to describe the sounds of chromatic mediant and tritone relationships in music and explore their use by composer, Carlo Gesualdo, in his madrigal, Morro, Lasso.. Also, this video takes a look at the instrument with which Gesualdo probably wrote these compositions: Vicentino’s Cimbalo Cromatico.