Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 178
... drama , with its preponderance of recitative and its serious plot , by the introduction of the songs , dances , and spectacle which had hitherto been characteristic of the intermedio . The result was , again , sung drama with the same ...
... drama , with its preponderance of recitative and its serious plot , by the introduction of the songs , dances , and spectacle which had hitherto been characteristic of the intermedio . The result was , again , sung drama with the same ...
Page 208
... musical drama . The oratorio had its roots in older church drama and was , originally , mainly choral , but by the late 1630's it had felt the influence of the secular musical drama and taken on many of its characteristics , notably ...
... musical drama . The oratorio had its roots in older church drama and was , originally , mainly choral , but by the late 1630's it had felt the influence of the secular musical drama and taken on many of its characteristics , notably ...
Page 236
... music for it , could be attributed directly to an interest in the Greek drama . Samson's monody " O dark , dark , dark ... , ” intro- duced with a change in verse form which in Italian musical drama indicated the entrance of a solo ...
... music for it , could be attributed directly to an interest in the Greek drama . Samson's monody " O dark , dark , dark ... , ” intro- duced with a change in verse form which in Italian musical drama indicated the entrance of a solo ...
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A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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