Some Forerunners of Italian Opera (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

William James Henderson

9780666176462: Some Forerunners of Italian Opera (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0666176469 ISBN 13: 9780666176462

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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The study of the character and performance of the first Italian secular drama, the Orfeo of Poliziano, unquestionably a lyric work, is the result of some years of labor. The author believes that What he has to offer on this topic will be found to possess historical value. The subsequent development of the lyric drama under the combined inﬂuences of polyphonic secular composition and the growing Italian taste for luxurious spectacle has been narrated at some length, because the author believes that the reformatory movement of the F lorentines was the out come of dissatisfaction With musical condi tions brought about as much by indulgence of the appetite for the purely sensuous elements in music as by blind adherence to the restrictive laws of ecclesiastic counter point.

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