
[Prince of Venosa] If you just play one note, it doesn't mean anything. But as soon as you play another note either at the same time or in sequence it starts to produce feelings and meaning. So you can have a minor chord or a major chord but only if you have more than one note. So Western music has always revolved around the idea that there is a center. [Inventor of Modern Music] Now, Gesualdo, what he invented is precisely a kind of music that moves away from the idea of a center. There's always some kind of chord configuration but it can vanish just as quickly as it appears. But it's the details of [Murderer] Geusaldo's personal life that people find so interesting today. He was obsessed with alchemy. He suffered from insomnia all his life. He was commonly thought to be a madman by the people of Naples. And stories of his murder of his wife and her lover, and their child were circulated even in his own time. [Gesualdo in Heaven] [The Puppets]