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Some Forerunners of Italian Opera

CHAPTER XI
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Later when he celebrated his victory and the acclaiming Greeks surrounded him, lutes, trombones, harps, viols and a horn united with the voices.

Strozzi wrote the fourth intermezzo with music by Caccini.

This carried the audience into both supernal and infernal regions and its music, somber and imposing, called for an orchestra of viols, lutes, lyres of all forms, double harps, trombones and organ.
The fifth intermezzo must have rivaled the glories of the ancient sacred plays in the public squares.

Rinuccini arranged it from the story of Arion.

The theater, so we are told, represented a sea dotted with rocks and from many of these spouted springs of living water.


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