William Hong said: >My dad's old college music book from the 50s was about the same, in that it >mentioned Monteverdi, but there were no recordings mentioned (there may not >have been any at the time) nor lines from his works reproduced in it. It >was just a distant name back then, with a noted but unheard influence on >later generations. I remember distinctly buying a 2 record album in 78 RPM with some extracts of Monteverdi's Madrigals in the late 40's. And the Lamenti in LP in the early fifties. Ramiro Arguello