Some Forerunners of Italian Opera
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Some Forerunners of Italian Opera is credited to W. J. Henderson. The preface says the purpose of the volume is to offer to the English reader a short study of the lyric drama in Italy prior to the birth of opera. The text describes a play in which the foolish virgins confess their sins and beg their sisters for help, and the wise virgins refuse the oil and bid their foolish sisters to go and buy it.
The text says the subjects of the dramas were always incidents from the Bible and the plays were represented in churches by priests or those close to them. A passage on part songs says the method of turning part songs into solos survived until the era of the full fledged madrigal dramas of Vecchi in the latter part of the sixteenth century. The text says Coussemaker wonders whether the musician was unable to find a melody worthy to be sung by the Savior or intentionally made Him speak instead of chant.
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- W. J. Henderson
- Pages
- 102
- Language
- English
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- European History
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