At the beginning the words sound beautiful, but then in the end the word start sound sneaky like a poisonous snake. He does this through word painting, making the s' sounds in the second stanza seem stealthy. Following those two stanzas, he again uses word painting in the stanza, "E piu sorda e piu fera e piu fugace." At the beginning of the stanza the music is stealthy, then becomes untamed and wild, leading to a rise in voice to become elusive. Again in the last stanza Monteverdi uses word painting along with a dissonance to create his theme of unrequited love. "I' mi morro" is repeated many times in a combination of tones that sound discordant, unstable, resolving in silence. In the end the voices fade out when they say, "tacendo" showing this
At the beginning the words sound beautiful, but then in the end the word start sound sneaky like a poisonous snake. He does this through word painting, making the s' sounds in the second stanza seem stealthy. Following those two stanzas, he again uses word painting in the stanza, "E piu sorda e piu fera e piu fugace." At the beginning of the stanza the music is stealthy, then becomes untamed and wild, leading to a rise in voice to become elusive. Again in the last stanza Monteverdi uses word painting along with a dissonance to create his theme of unrequited love. "I' mi morro" is repeated many times in a combination of tones that sound discordant, unstable, resolving in silence. In the end the voices fade out when they say, "tacendo" showing this